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
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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