The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. House. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- outer-moat-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Upper Street, Higham, CO7 6LB
- OS grid reference
- TM 034 356
- Coordinates
- 51.98205, 0.96171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, likely dating from the 17th century, with later alterations. It is timber-framed and rendered, with a red brick stack and a plain tile roof. The building has a three-cell plan and two storeys. A single-storey projection, with a pent roof, has been added to the left of the front, containing a door and shop window. A further plank door adjoins this. Windows are 20th-century three-light casements, with a single leaded light on the first floor against the stack. The roof is steeply pitched and swept, with a stack positioned off-centre. The ends of wall plates and collar are visible on the left gable wall. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- 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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