The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1985. A C19 Dwelling and shop. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-minaret-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1985
- Type
- Dwelling and shop
- Address
- The Old Post Office, the Street, Walpole, IP19 9AP
- OS grid reference
- TM 365 745
- Coordinates
- 52.31803, 1.46922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is an early to mid-19th century dwelling and shop. It is constructed of red brick with a brick band at first-floor level and a brick eaves dentil cornice. The roof is covered in asbestos slates. The building is three storeys tall and has a four-bay facade arranged 3:1. The three left-hand bays form the symmetrical part of the house, while the right-hand bay is a slightly wider shop set back at an angle. The bays are divided by brick pilasters. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars in flush frames, each with a slightly cambered brick arch. There is one blank panel on the second floor. The house section has paired panelled shutters to the ground floor windows and a central doorway with twin inset three-panel doors, the upper panels glazed, and a blind semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars. The original shop front features a slightly bowed four-light window, double half-glazed doors, and a wrought iron balcony supported by shaped brackets.
Local climate
The Old Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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