The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. House, shop.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- fallow-postern-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Church Road, Bardwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 941 735
- Coordinates
- 52.32575, 0.84735
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house and shop dating from the 16th century, with various extensions from the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and encased in red brick, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building is narrow and positioned sideways to the street, featuring an end chimney stack set within the frame, which remains intact on the inside.
On the gable end, there is a small canted bow window and a 2-light 19th-century casement window on the upper storey, both of which are off-centre. The north side has a 1½ storey lean-to extension made of red brick with a slate roof, featuring casement windows with arched heads. At the north-east end, there is a 1½ storey cross-wing that is rendered and has a pantiled roof. Between these two extensions, there is a single-storey lean-to extension in red brick with a pantiled roof.
On the south side, there is a single-storey double-fronted shop that is roughcast with plain tiles, which includes two canted bay windows and a central door.
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 86% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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