Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Shop and cottage.

Post Office

WRENN ID
vacant-lantern-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1960
Type
Shop and cottage
Address
Post Office, Hammond Street, Mappowder
OS grid reference
ST 734 060
Coordinates
50.85351, -2.37872
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a Post Office located on Hammond Street in Mappowder, dating from the mid-19th century. Originally two cottages, it has been converted into a cottage and shop. The structure features coursed rubble walls and a hipped tiled roof with a central brick chimney. It stands two storeys high and has a four-window range. The shop front includes a 20th-century bow window with glazing bars. To the right, there is a three-light casement window with horizontal glazing bars. The central entrance consists of a plain wooden door set in an open gabled porch. Above the door are three two-light casement windows, also with horizontal glazing bars.

Local climate

Post Office receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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