The Old Post Office and Labunrum Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage. 8 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office and Labunrum Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-nave-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Post Office and Labunrum Cottage, Low Road, Forncett, NR16 1JN
- OS grid reference
- TM 171 951
- Coordinates
- 52.51129, 1.1981
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office and Laburnum Cottage are a pair of late 18th or early 19th century timber-frame cottages. The cottages are plastered, with the south end wall of the Post Office facing in red brick. They have a pantile roof with gabled ends. The cottages are two storeys high and have four widely spaced windows, containing early 19th century three-light casement windows. Two brick chimney stacks are visible on the ridge of the roof. Laburnum Cottage has a modern lean-to addition on its north end.
Local climate
The Old Post Office and Labunrum 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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