Martha's Cottage Post Office Wisteria is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Shop, cottage. 1 related planning application.

Martha's Cottage Post Office Wisteria

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Type
Shop, cottage
Address
Martha's Cottage Post Office Wisteria, Church Road, Great Glemham, IP17 2DA
OS grid reference
TM 340 616
Coordinates
52.20373, 1.42327
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

A late 18th-century shop and three cottages, with Martha’s Cottage located at the rear of the main building. The structure is built of red brick and has a pantiled roof. It is a single-storey building with an attic. The windows are 2-light and 3-light casements, and there are two 4-panel doors. Three flat-roofed dormers are present, as is a brick eaves dentil cornice. At the south-west end is a shop, featuring an original splayed bay window with 28 small panes of glass, and a modern half-glazed door.

Local climate

Martha's Cottage Post Office Wisteria sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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