The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. Cottage, shop.

The Post Office

WRENN ID
second-rood-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1985
Type
Cottage, shop
Address
The Post Office, Bodenham Village, Odstock
OS grid reference
SU 166 261
Coordinates
51.03466, -1.76427
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office is a cottage and attached shop built around 1840. It features Flemish bond brick with vitrified headers and a decorated tiled roof with brick stacks. The building is L-shaped, two stories high, and has a three-window front. To the right, there is a door in a gabled porch with a hood mould made of gauged brick. To the left, there is a 19th-century shop window, along with a two-light casement and a planked door, both under a hood mould, in the projecting wing. To the right of the door is a two-light cast-iron casement. All windows have gauged flat arches. The first floor has a three-brick plat band and three two-light cast-iron casements with hood moulds. The front features three steeply-pitched gables with brick cornices.

On the left side, there is a door in a gabled porch with a hood mould and two two-light cast-iron casements. The first floor has a three-brick plat band and two two-light cast-iron casements. The roof has two gables with brick cornices. The right side has two single wooden casements on the ground floor, a plat band on the first floor, and one 20th-century metal casement. At the rear, there is an integral outshut with a 20th-century dormer in the roof. This building is a well-designed estate property from the Longford Castle Estate.

Local climate

The Post Office receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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