White Post Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. A C16 Cottage, former farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

White Post Cottage

WRENN ID
twelfth-rubble-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 June 1988
Type
Cottage, former farmhouse
Address
White Post Cottage, Ashfield Cum Thorpe, IP14 6LU
OS grid reference
TM 211 619
Coordinates
52.21155, 1.23527
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Post Cottage is a former farmhouse dating from the mid-16th century. It is timber framed and rendered, with a roof made of old plain tiles. The building consists of two cells of a three-cell cross-entry house, although the service end to the right has been lost. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring late 19th-century small-paned casement windows. There is a 20th-century gabled porch with a mid-20th-century plank door. The cottage has an internal stack and one-storey lean-to additions on each gable end.

Inside, the cottage retains intact studding that is closely spaced on the ground floor. The parlour ceiling includes a chamfered axial bridging beam and roll-moulded joists, with two additional roll-moulded joists in the ceiling in front of the stack. In the hall, the joists are chamfered in the upper bay (closer to the stack) and plain in the lower bay. There are back-to-back fireplaces with original lintels, and the brickwork has been repointed in the mid-20th century. The newel stair has been rebuilt, and the roof features queen posts.

Local climate

White Post Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • 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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