Gasthorpe Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Post office.
Gasthorpe Post Office
- WRENN ID
- burning-chancel-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Gasthorpe Post Office, Riddlesworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 976 808
- Coordinates
- 52.39043, 0.9031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gasthorpe Post Office is a building that serves both as a post office and a domestic residence. It dates from the early 18th century and was altered in the mid 19th century. The structure is timber framed and has been refaced in gault brick, topped with a thatched roof. It is one storey high with an attic. To the left, there is a 19th-century canted shop front featuring intact glazing bars in the window. The rest of the windows are from the 20th century. The building has a gabled roof with bargeboards and an internal stack on the north gable. At the rear, there is a two-storey cross wing from the 19th century that has a pantiled roof. This building is included in the register for its group value only.
Local climate
Gasthorpe Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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