The Old Post Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. A C17 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Old Post Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-shingle-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Post Cottage, Water Lane, Polstead, CO6 5AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 991 380
- Coordinates
- 52.00505, 0.89936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered building located on Polstead Water Lane. It features a tiled roof with a ridge chimney stack that has two diagonal shafts on a tall square base. The cottage has some painted brick facing and stands two storeys high with attics. On the north-west front, there is a trio of windows, while the south-west end has one window range. The windows include a mix of small casements and double-hung sashes with glazing bars.
Local climate
The Old Post Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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
- 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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