Post Office and House, 1 High Street and 41 Nethergate Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1961. Post office, house.

Post Office and House, 1 High Street and 41 Nethergate Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 December 1961
Type
Post office, house
Address
Post Office and House, 1 High Street and 41 Nethergate Street, Clare
OS grid reference
TL 769 452
Coordinates
52.07735, 0.58081
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office and house at 1 High Street and 41 Nethergate Street is a building dating from the late 15th or early 16th century. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure with a crosswing at the south end and a return front at No 41 Nethergate Street. The building has undergone significant alterations, particularly in the early 19th century, when it was refronted and now displays a roughcast finish with a parapet on the east front.

It stands two storeys high with attics, showcasing a four-window range on the east front and a two-window range on the south front. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, set in flush cased frames. Notably, one of the first-storey windows on the east front retains the carved sill of a former oriel window, which is adorned with figures and a shield.

No 41 Nethergate Street features two early 19th-century shop fronts. The shop front on the south side has fluted pilasters with a cornice, flanked by two doorways, one of which contains a six-panel door with reeded pilasters and a cornice hood supported by paired brackets. The other shop front is a fine example of its type, featuring a corner six-panel double door with a rectangular fanlight, small paned shop windows with thin section glazing bars, narrow pilasters, and a continuous fascia cornice. The roofs are tiled and include one segmental headed dormer on the east front.

The building is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 8 (consecutive), Nos 28, 29, and 31, all the listed buildings in Well Lane, Stone Hall, and Nos 36 to 40 (consecutive) Nethergate Street.

Local climate

Post Office and House, 1 High Street and 41 Nethergate Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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