Creech Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. Detached house.
Creech Post Office
- WRENN ID
- sacred-mantel-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- Creech Post Office, Grange Road, Steeple with Tyneham
- OS grid reference
- SY 914 828
- Coordinates
- 50.64512, -2.12215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Creech Post Office is a detached house dating from the early 19th century. It features rendered walls and a low-pitched hipped slate roof with a brick chimney stack. The building stands two storeys high. At the front, there is a brick porch with a round-arched doorway. On the ground floor, there are two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, while the first floor has three similar windows. To the west, there is a lean-to extension with a slate roof and one matching window.
Local climate
Creech Post Office receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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