Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1974. House. 3 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-quoin-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Post Office, 224, Preston Road, Weymouth, DT3 6BJ
- OS grid reference
- SY 704 830
- Coordinates
- 50.64654, -2.41951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a detached house located on Preston Road in Weymouth, dated 1747. It features a rubble construction with a thatched roof and a two-room central-entry plan. The main front, which faces west, is two storeys high and has two windows. It includes two- and three-light small-pane wood casements and a central part-glazed door that is sheltered by a small gable hood. Above the door, there is a panel inscribed with "I/RM/1747/May 29". The gable facing the road is plain, with a door to the right and small brick gable stacks. At the rear, there are two-light casements on each level, located far left. Attached to the rear and parallel to the road is a single-storey gabled range, which was a former workshop. This range has a corrugated roof and rubble walls, featuring a small single light and a larger six-pane fixed light to the left of a wide pair of doors that are topped with a deep boarded lintel. The interior has not been inspected. This building is part of a compact group of early houses in this area of the village.
Local climate
Post Office receives an average of 840 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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