Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1984. Cottage, house.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- grim-portal-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1984
- Type
- Cottage, house
- Address
- Post Office, 6, the Street, Ampton
- OS grid reference
- TL 865 713
- Coordinates
- 52.30817, 0.73516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a pair of estate cottages that have been converted into one house, dating from the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of large, coursed flints, featuring rusticated red brick quoins and dressings. It has two storeys and a hipped roof, with black glazed pantiles on the front slope and clay pantiles on the remainder. There is an internal chimney stack with a plain shaft. The front facade includes two 3-light casement windows, each with a single bar to the lights; the ground floor windows have arched heads to their surrounds. One door is a plank door, while the other has been replaced by a window. At the rear, there is a two-storey cross-wing built in similar materials, along with a long single-storey lean-to on the north side, which has a roof that slopes continuously with the main roof. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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