Whitton Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1977. House.
Whitton Post Office
- WRENN ID
- solitary-cobalt-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Whitton Post Office, 712, Norwich Road
- OS grid reference
- TM 141 475
- Coordinates
- 52.08464, 1.12362
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitton Post Office is an early 19th century house located on Norwich Road. The building features red brick at the rear and a roughcast facade at the front. It is two storeys high and has a three-window range. The Post Office, numbered 712, has double-hung sash windows without glazing bars, while the adjacent property, numbered 714, has modern casement windows. The ground floor of No 712 includes a 20th-century shop front. The roofs are tiled and feature a modillion eaves cornice, along with a central chimney stack that has a panel with a date, which is partially worn away but appears to read 180?. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Whitton Post Office sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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