Old Post Office Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Old Post Office Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-buttress-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Post Office Cottage, Witherdale Street, Mendham
- OS grid reference
- TM 270 810
- Coordinates
- 52.3801, 1.33458
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Post Office Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with some partial rebuilding from the late 17th or 18th century and an 18th to 19th century wing at the rear. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof. The building has two storeys and was formerly designed with an attic, featuring a two-cell layout. The windows are casements, with 19th century windows on the first floor and mid-20th century windows on the ground floor. There are two mid-20th century boarded entrance doors and a central axial stack. The left-hand room on the first floor retains 16th century studding, but the quality of the timbering throughout the house indicates significant later reconstruction. The cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Old Post Office Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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