The Old Post Office. Old Post Office Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1961. Timber-framed house.
The Old Post Office. Old Post Office Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grey-nave-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1961
- Type
- Timber-framed house
- Address
- The Old Post Office. Old Post Office Cottage, High Street, Cavendish
- OS grid reference
- TL 808 465
- Coordinates
- 52.08751, 0.63786
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office, also known as Old Post Office Cottage, is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered house that has been divided into two tenements. It has one storey and attics, featuring casement windows. The cottage at the eastern end includes two small 18th-century style shop windows, which are modern but have glazing bars. There is one boarded door and one six-panel door with an architrave and cornice. The roofs are thatched and include one gabled dormer. The Old Post Office and Old Post Office Cottage, along with Sunny Cottages (Nos 1 & 2) and The Nook, form a group of buildings.
Local climate
The Old Post Office. Old Post Office Cottage 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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