Stourton Post Office and Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. A Georgian Cottage and shop.
Stourton Post Office and Stores
- WRENN ID
- former-render-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage and shop
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Stourton Post Office and Stores, High Street, Stourton with Gasper
- OS grid reference
- ST 775 339
- Coordinates
- 51.10485, -2.32157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stourton Post Office and Stores is a cottage and shop located at the end of a row, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of dressed limestone and has a Welsh slate roof, which was formerly thatched. There is a large external stone and brick stack on the right side of the building. The structure is two stories high and features three windows. The central entrance consists of a planked door set within a wooden tent porch, with a three-light leaded casement window on either side. On the first floor, there are three-light leaded casement windows flanking a two-light leaded casement window that has a quadrant stay. At the rear, there is a rubble stone wing with a lower tiled hipped roof, which includes two-light and three-light casements.
Local climate
Stourton Post Office and Stores receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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