Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1988. Former farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Old Post Office

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1988
Type
Former farmhouse
Address
Old Post Office, 1 and 2, Wetheringsett-Cum-Brockford, IP14 5PQ
OS grid reference
TM 125 667
Coordinates
52.25768, 1.11322
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Post Office is a former farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings. It dates back to the 16th century and underwent renovations in the mid-20th century. The building is timber framed and rendered, featuring a thatched roof that is hipped over the service end to the right. It has a three-cell form and consists of two storeys with an attic. There are four windows, which are mid-20th century two-light casements without glazing bars. The original entrance porch below the stack has been altered, with the door replaced by a window. There are matching mid-20th century doorways on the left and right, each with a plank door and a full-height window beside it. The stack has a rebuilt axial shaft.

Inside, the property has been considerably modernised, but some good quality studding remains in the hall and the chamber above, along with evidence of original windows. The hall features a chamfered-joist ceiling, with the main beam displaying broach stop-chamfers at one end. There is a mutilated moulded lintel over the hall fireplace. A service partition has been removed and replaced by a later studded cross-partition in the lower bay of the hall. The roof structure is a queen-post design. The building ceased to be used as a post office in 1884.

Local climate

Old 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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