The Post House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1961. House, cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Post House
- WRENN ID
- still-rampart-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1961
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- The Post House, Ryme Intrinseca, DT9 6JX
- OS grid reference
- ST 580 108
- Coordinates
- 50.89591, -2.59718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post House is an attached house and cottage dated 1772, as indicated by a stone tablet above the front door. It features red brick walls laid in Flemish bond, with projecting brick quoin-work. The roof is made of slate, with stone gable copings and kneelers, and there are brick stacks at each gable. The building has two storeys and three windows, which are three-light 20th-century wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars and wooden cills. Above the front door is a two-light casement. The ground floor windows have segmental brick arches. The central front entrance is framed by a moulded stone architrave, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice, leading to a panelled door from the 20th century.
At the east end, there is an attached cottage from the early 19th century, also with brick walls and a slate roof featuring stone gable coping. This cottage has two storeys, with a canted bay window on the left side at ground level, a fixed window with five panes and glazing bars, and a two-light wooden casement with glazing bars to the right. Above this, there is another two-light wooden casement. The east end wall displays three feathers, representing the Duchy of Cornwall.
Local climate
The Post House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 64% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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