The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1981. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- ruined-lancet-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, the Street, Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall, NR16 1AA
- OS grid reference
- TM 141 976
- Coordinates
- 52.53468, 1.15669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house dating from the 17th or 18th century. It features a plastered timber frame, with the front faced in red brick added in the mid-19th century. The roof is steep and covered with black-glazed pantiles, with gable ends. The west end has an early 18th-century tumbled brick gable that includes a chimney stack. The building has two storeys and three widely spaced windows, which are 19th-century three-light casements. There is also a late 19th-century porch.
Local climate
The Old 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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