Mellbreak House is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. House.

Mellbreak House

WRENN ID
tall-bailey-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
House
Address
Mellbreak House, Dickleburgh Moor, Dickleburgh and Rushall
OS grid reference
TM 170 831
Coordinates
52.40296, 1.1889
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mellbreak House is a 17th-century building featuring a plastered timber frame and a very steep pantile roof with gabled ends. The house has two storeys and four windows, which include two and three-light casements. There is an off-centre brick chimney stack. At the north end, there is a single bay with a lower pitched pantile roof, also stuccoed, that includes casement windows.

Local climate

Mellbreak House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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