Dunster Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1975. Post office.
Dunster Post Office
- WRENN ID
- rough-gateway-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 1975
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Dunster Post Office, 15, High Street, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 991 437
- Coordinates
- 51.18415, -3.4444
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dunster Post Office, located at No 15 on Dunster High Street, features an 18th century frontage with later alterations. The building is constructed of stucco and has a slate roof with eaves and two later gabled dormers. It is two-storeys high and has four windows; the first floor includes three leaded iron casements set in wood frames and one later sash window oriel. The ground floor has 19th century sash windows, along with a later shop window and door. The central entrance has a modern glazed door framed by a 17th century flat-headed chamfered frame.
Local climate
Dunster Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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