Peggottys Post Office Townsend Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. A C17 Post office and cottages. 1 related planning application.
Peggottys Post Office Townsend Cottages
- WRENN ID
- little-cinder-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1984
- Type
- Post office and cottages
- Address
- Peggottys Post Office Townsend Cottages, 2, Litton Cheney, DT2 9AN
- OS grid reference
- SY 549 906
- Coordinates
- 50.71361, -2.63932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A late 17th-century post office and two attached cottages stand in a row within Litton Cheney village. The building is constructed of rubble stone with a thatched roof, featuring a brick stack centrally along the ridge. It is a one-and-a-half-story structure with gable ends and has five windows, each with two or three lights and cast-iron casements containing glazing bars. Wooden cills and lintels are also present. The post office entrance is on the left, with a 20th-century door. Two further doors, positioned next to each other at the centre, are planked with four glass lights, and are also from the 20th century. Inside Peggottys, the right-hand ground floor room contains a large open fireplace with a wooden bressummer, straight-chamfered with run-out stops. A brick-lined bread oven is built into the left-hand jamb of the fireplace. The ground floor also features roughly-chamfered ceiling beams.
Local climate
Peggottys Post Office Townsend Cottages 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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