Cheney House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Former post office.
Cheney House
- WRENN ID
- low-mullion-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Former post office
- Address
- Cheney House, Melbury Osmond, Dorchester, DT2 0LS
- OS grid reference
- ST 574 076
- Coordinates
- 50.86719, -2.60576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cheney House is an attached former Post Office and Store, now a private dwelling, dating from the early 19th century. The building features dressed stone walls with rusticated stone quoins and a slate roof with gable ends. It has brick stacks located on the ridge to the left of center and at the right-hand gable. The structure is two storeys high and has three windows, which are 19th-century sashes with thin glazing bars and crown glass. The windows are adorned with flat stone architraves and stone cills. There is a blocking of a former shop front on the left side of the front elevation. The front door, positioned to the right of center, has recessed panels and one top-light, also from the 19th century. It is framed by a stone architrave and a stone canopy supported on moulded stone brackets.
Local climate
Cheney 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
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