Posting House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. House. 5 related planning applications.
Posting House
- WRENN ID
- ancient-banister-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Posting House, Hall Street, Long Melford, CO10 9JA
- OS grid reference
- TL 862 455
- Coordinates
- 52.07677, 0.71712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a posting house, originally a timber-framed and plastered hall house dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, with cross wings at the north and south ends. It was altered in the 17th and 18th centuries and restored during the 20th century. The building is two storeys high. Most of the windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The central block and north cross wing have 20th-century shop windows, and the north end features an addition with a carriageway. The south cross wing has 19th-century ornamental bargeboards, and a doorcase with fluted pilasters and a cornice hood supported on brackets. The roof is tiled, with a modillion eaves cornice to the centre block. Inside, there is exposed timber-framing, and on the first storey, a cambered tie beam with a crown post.
Local climate
Posting House 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 80% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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