The Post Office and Shop House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. Shop and house. 1 related planning application.
The Post Office and Shop House
- WRENN ID
- spare-roof-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- Shop and house
- Address
- The Post Office and Shop House, Long Green, Wortham, IP22 1PP
- OS grid reference
- TM 085 772
- Coordinates
- 52.35373, 1.06138
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office and Shop House is an early 19th-century shop with an attached house, situated on the north side of Long Green in Wortham. The building is constructed of clay lump and plaster, with glazed pantiled roofs.
The shop front, which is two bays wide, is tall, rising to two storeys and an attic. The original shop front is located on the right-hand side, featuring steps leading to a central half-glazed door set within a reeded architrave and a small hood. Flanking the door are two shallow bow windows with seven panes to the top five, each framed by fluted pilasters and entablatures. The first floor contains two 16-pane sash windows set in flush moulded frames. A plinth runs along the base, and the roof features boxed eaves. A stack is extruded at the right end, and an attic window is positioned at the left end. A lean-to extension covers the rear, rising to one storey and an attic, with further lean-to outshut additions.
The attached house, to the right, is lower and two storeys high. It has a central 20th-century gabled porch. Flanking the porch and on the first floor are 19th-century three-light glazing bar casements set in part-opening metal frames. An internal stack is located at the right end. The rear of the house also has a lean-to outshut, covered by a continuous roof.
Local climate
The Post Office and Shop House 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 2002
- 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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