Building record MDO39180 - The Post Office, The Square, Milborne St Andrew

A house built in the early 18th century, now the post office. The building has brick walls and a thatched roof. Two early 19th-century shop windows have been inserted in the front wall.

The Post Office house (SY 80279762) of two storeys with brick walls and thatched roof was built early in the 18th century. The south west front has two small shop windows of early 19th century. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 80279762) PO (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 178 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(7) THE POST OFFICE (80279762), house, 300 yds. N.E. of the church, is two-storied with brick walls and a thatched roof; it was built early in the 18th century. The S.W. front includes two small shop windows with reeded wooden architraves and angle roundels of the early 19th century.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456061 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 6 2025 2:07PM