Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. Cottage.
Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- late-chimney-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Post Office, Hadleigh Road, Hintlesham
- OS grid reference
- TM 089 433
- Coordinates
- 52.04957, 1.04558
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a cottage dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with 18th century and later extensions. It features a timber frame that is rendered, while the later additions are constructed of brick, topped with plain tile roofs. The building has a two-cell lobby entrance plan and is one and a half storeys high. It includes two three-light metal casements and a boarded and glazed door that is sheltered by a canopy. There are two full dormers with small paned casements and a plastered rose in each gable. An axial brick stack is present, with the staircase located behind the stack. There is also a timber framed, brick clad extension to the west. The building was formerly used as the Post Office. A limited inspection of the interior has been conducted.
Local climate
Old Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 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 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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