The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Post office.

The Post Office

WRENN ID
sleeping-panel-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 November 1959
Type
Post office
Address
The Post Office, Station Road, Moreton
OS grid reference
SY 804 894
Coordinates
50.70408, -2.27782
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office is a shop with living accommodation above, located on the corner of a road leading to a ford. It appears to date from the mid-19th century. The building features brick walls and a thatched roof, with gables above the first-floor windows. There is a brick chimney stack. The structure is two storeys tall, with a later addition of a single-storey brick lean-to at the rear, which has a corrugated asbestos roof. The entrance door is set in a timber porch with a tiled roof, positioned on the splayed corner. The door is part-glazed. There are two shop windows with glazing bars. On the first floor, there is one casement window with glazing bars, one fixed window above the door, and one canted bay window with a tiled roof.

Local climate

The Post Office receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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