Post Office House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. House.

Post Office House

WRENN ID
mired-rampart-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 August 1988
Type
House
Address
Post Office House, Pound Hill, Dallinghoo
OS grid reference
TM 267 549
Coordinates
52.14666, 1.3127
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Post Office House is a house dating from the 16th century, with an 18th-century addition and 19th-century facades. It is timber framed, covered in colourwashed render, and has a plain tile roof that was originally thatched. The building is two storeys high with an attic.

The entrance front features 19th-century doors on either side of the centre, each with gabled porches that have decorative bargeboards and mace finials. Between these doors, and on either side, are four 19th-century cross windows with Tudor hood moulds. The first floor has similar windows, though they are shorter. At the near-centre gable, there is a single central light, along with drop finials and a mace finial. Massive chimney stacks with rectangular bases and sawtoothed flues are located at the ridge, with the left stack featuring a ball ornament and the right stack dating from the 19th century.

On the right-hand gable end, there is a single-storey flat-roofed shop at ground floor level. The left-hand gable end has cross windows on the ground and attic floors, with a decorative bressumer below the gable and drop and mace finials. The rear of the house has two doorways on the right and random fenestration.

Inside, there are chamfered ceiling beams and joists with stepped lamb's tongue end stops in one ground floor room. The walls feature close studding, two blocked windows, and chamfered beams on the first floor. Some rebuilding has occurred at one end, using pine beams.

Local climate

Post Office House 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 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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