Post Box Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. House.
Post Box Cottages
- WRENN ID
- pale-pinnacle-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Post Box Cottages, 1 and 2, Knettishall
- OS grid reference
- TL 973 804
- Coordinates
- 52.38646, 0.89812
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Post Box Cottages, originally a single house from the late 16th century, has been divided into two homes. It features early 19th century extensions at each end. The building is two storeys high and constructed with a timber frame, faced in 19th century white brick, while the extensions are made of flint rubble with red brick quoins. The roofs are covered with clay pantiles. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack with a plain rebuilt red brick shaft. The layout follows a basic two-cell lobby entrance plan. The main house has two- and three-light casement windows with a single bar to the lights on both storeys, as well as one in the western extension. An enclosed gabled porch provides access with doors on each side, and the main ceiling beams are exposed inside.
Local climate
Post Box Cottages 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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