Post Office Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Post Office Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-kitchen-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Post Office Cottage, Rectory Road, Buxhall
- OS grid reference
- TM 003 578
- Coordinates
- 52.18207, 0.92899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Post Office Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1800. It has a two-cell lobby-entrance plan and is one storey high with attics. The exterior is made of roughcast clay lump, and it features a hipped thatched roof with two 19th-century casement dormers. The roof is plaintiled and has crested ridges. There is an axial chimney made of red brick with 19th-century twin diagonally-set square flues. The cottage has early 19th-century small-pane casements and a 19th-century gabled plaintiled porch with a boarded and battened door.
Local climate
Post Office Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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