Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1977. Shop, house. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- little-truss-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1977
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- Post Office, 38, Market Place, Hingham, NR9 4AF
- OS grid reference
- TG 022 021
- Coordinates
- 52.57963, 0.98396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office, located at No. 38 in Hingham Market Place, is a shop and house built in the early 19th century. It features a painted brick exterior and a low-pitched pantile roof with gabled ends. The building is two storeys high and has a long range with five widely spaced sash windows that include glazing bars. No. 40 has a ground floor multi-pane shop window, while Nos. 39 and 40 are adorned with pilastered doorcases topped with cornices, leading to panelled and glazed doors. No. 38 has a smaller shop window with plate glass and a glazed door. The building also includes brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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