Post Office and House Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. A C17-C18 Post office, house.
Post Office and House Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- crooked-ledge-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- Post office, house
- OS grid reference
- TL 886 514
- Coordinates
- 52.12877, 0.75473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office and adjoining house in Alpheton is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 17th to 18th century, with the year 1738 inscribed in the gable of one of the dormers. The structure has one storey and attics, featuring a two-window range with casement windows. A modern gabled porch extends from the front, and there is a 20th-century single-storey addition that houses a shop at the west end. The main roof is thatched and includes two gabled dormers along with a central chimney stack. The west addition has a 20th-century pantiled roof.
Local climate
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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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