Kennel Cottage Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. Post office and cottage.
Kennel Cottage Post Office
- WRENN ID
- drifting-crypt-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1955
- Type
- Post office and cottage
- Address
- Kennel Cottage Post Office, Upper Street, Stratford St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- TM 046 343
- Coordinates
- 51.97003, 0.9784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kennel Cottage Post Office is a building that dates back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, topped with a plain tile roof and a red brick stack. The building has a T-plan layout and stands two storeys high. The Post Office occupies the left side, presenting a gable end to the street, and has a central lobby-entry plan. The entrance door is set in a plain doorcase, and there are 20th-century bow windows on the ground floor, with 8 and 16-pane sash windows above. To the right is Kennel Cottage, which has a 6-panel door at the end and 4-pane sash windows, along with a ridge stack. Inside the Post Office, there is an ovolo-chamfered beam with run-out stops.
Local climate
Kennel Cottage 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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