The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1983. A C17 Post office. 1 related planning application.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- young-window-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1983
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- The Old Post Office, 41 and 43, New Road, Bawburgh
- OS grid reference
- TG 156 087
- Coordinates
- 52.6337, 1.18537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office, located on Bawburgh New Road, is a 17th-century building with later additions. It features a rendered timber frame, brick, flint, and re-used ashlar, topped with pantiled roofs. The original structure is a timber-framed lobby entrance house with an off-centre axial stack and a gable end stack. It is one storey high with an attic, and has 19th-century and late 20th-century windows. The steep-pitched roof has shaped eaves sprockets and two sloping dormers. A two-storey masonry structure was added in the 18th century, which includes 19th-century casement windows with glazing bars and a gable end stack. There is also a 19th-century outshut with a tumbled-in half gable. Inside, the original fireplace is located at the gable end, and some ground floor ceiling beams feature a wall bracket with barred and ogee chamfer stops.
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 85% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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