Ivy Cottage Old Post Office Tinkers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Row of houses.
Ivy Cottage Old Post Office Tinkers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-chapel-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1984
- Type
- Row of houses
- Address
- Ivy Cottage Old Post Office Tinkers Cottage, St James's Street, Dunwich
- OS grid reference
- TM 477 705
- Coordinates
- 52.27747, 1.63072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of three houses known as Tinker's Cottage, Old Post Office, and Ivy Cottage, dated 'John Clayton 1770' on a brick to the left side of the central doorway, suggesting a possibly older core. The houses are constructed of red brick with a roof featuring plain tiles at the front and pantiles at the rear, topped with crest tiles along the ridge. They are two storeys high with an attic and have a six-window range, primarily consisting of two-light small pane casements with flat brick arches and raised keys.
There are three doorways: Tinker's Cottage has a six-panel door with the upper four panels glazed; the Old Post Office features a half-glazed door; and Ivy Cottage has an inset six-panel bolection moulded door with panelled reveals. Additionally, there are three 19th-century gabled dormers that have diamond pane windows and ornamental barge boards.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage Old Post Office Tinkers Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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