The Post Office and House Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Post office.
The Post Office and House Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- fallow-chapel-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- Post office
- OS grid reference
- TL 966 476
- Coordinates
- 52.0918, 0.86938
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office and the adjoining house is an early 19th-century building that features a timber frame and plaster exterior, topped with a slate roof. It stands two storeys tall. The ground floor is faced with stucco and has a rusticated appearance, complete with a cornice. On the upper storey, there is a range of five modern casement windows that have replaced the original sash windows. The ground floor includes two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, as well as an early 19th-century double shop front, which also features glazing bars and fluted Ionic pilasters.
Local climate
The Post Office and House Adjoining 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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