Old Post Office and Adjacent Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1959. Cottage.
Old Post Office and Adjacent Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-rampart-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1959
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Post Office and Adjacent Cottage, Church Road, Barton Bendish, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 712 056
- Coordinates
- 52.62187, 0.52851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office and adjacent cottage, dated 1713, are two cottages located on Church Road in Barton Bendish. They are constructed from brick, carstone, and ashlar, topped with a thatched roof, while the rear outshut has a pantiled roof. The buildings are one storey high with a dormer attic. The west gable features brick tumbling and a set-off to the attic floor, along with a date plaque inscribed with 1713 in Roman numerals. The facade has doors on the left and right of the center, with three 20th-century casement windows. Above one of the doors is a plaque that reads: L E R 1713. There are three dormers with sloping pantiled roofs and casements. The roof is gabled, and there is a square early 18th-century ridge stack located left of center, along with a rebuilt external stack on the right.
Local climate
Old Post Office and Adjacent Cottage 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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