The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1995. Post Office, house.

The Old Post Office

WRENN ID
strange-brass-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Country
England
Date first listed
16 January 1995
Type
Post Office, house
Source
Historic England listing

Description

HELMINGHAM - TM15NE 4/10014 The Old Post Office

GV II

Post Office, now house. c1840, perhaps to the designs of Anthony Salvin, who was active at Helmingham Hall (qv) in c1841. Brick in Flemish bond with moulded brick stack between second and third range. Pantile roofs with swept eaves and ornamental vergeboards to gables on returns and trio of gabled dormers. Two storeys with outshut to the rear. Segmental arched windows with casements of original design flanking entrance which is set under a gabled canopy porch. Secondary stacks to corner of left. Picturesque style combining vernacular forms with those from the 'cottage orne' tradition. Cottages 3-8, 15-20, the Old Post Office near the cross roads, and the Old Forge form a group.

Listing NGR: TM1877257108

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