Post Office and Cottage Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Post office, cottage.

Post Office and Cottage Adjoining

WRENN ID
stark-loggia-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1978
Type
Post office, cottage
OS grid reference
TL 916 408
Coordinates
52.03256, 0.79318
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office and adjoining cottage on Church Road is an 18th-century building constructed from red brick. It has one storey with attics and features small casement windows. The roof is tiled and has a mansard design, complete with end chimney stacks.

Local climate

Post Office and Cottage Adjoining sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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