The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. House, former shop, post office.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- dusted-baluster-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- House, former shop, post office
- Address
- The Old Post Office, the Street, Coney Weston
- OS grid reference
- TL 957 780
- Coordinates
- 52.36574, 0.87371
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house that was formerly part shop and post office, dating from the 17th century. It is one-and-a-half storeys tall and has a three-cell layout, positioned sideways to the road. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring panels of comb-pargetting. On the east side, there are two Tudor roses and a fleur-de-lys in plaster relief spaced along the wall. The roof is thatched, and there is an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft. The windows are small-paned casements, and there are two eyebrow dormers on the side elevation. At the north end, there is an early 20th-century flat-roofed, canted double shop front with large small-paned windows and a half-glazed door; the apex of the gable includes a traceried circular window. Additionally, there is a brick and flint lean-to along the west side. Inside, some plain studding and main ceiling beams are visible.
Local climate
The Old Post Office 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% 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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