The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. A C17 Post office.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- solitary-bonework-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Baynard's Lane, Roydon
- OS grid reference
- TM 096 806
- Coordinates
- 52.38402, 1.07863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a building that likely dates from the 17th century. It features a plastered timber frame and has a steep pantile roof with gabled ends. The structure is one storey high with an attic. It includes modern and 19th-century casement windows, as well as modern dormers with flat roofs. There is a wing at the east end that forms an L-shaped plan, which was added in the mid-19th century. This wing is two storeys tall, constructed of roughcast clay lump, and has a pantile roof along with 19th-century and modern casements.
Local climate
The Old Post Office sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% 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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