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
- lesser-render-falcon
- 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
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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