Mere House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House. 5 related planning applications.
Mere House
- WRENN ID
- eternal-cinder-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mere House, Bures Road, Little Cornard, CO10 0NN
- OS grid reference
- TL 885 388
- Coordinates
- 52.01584, 0.74641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mere House is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered house located on Bures Road in Little Cornard. It is of group value. The house is two storeys high and has a three-window front. The windows are 3-light leaded casements. The central window on the upper storey has a semi-circular head. A central entrance features a 6-panel door with a moulded architrave, frieze, and cornice. The roof is tiled, with a cover plaster eaves soffit and end chimney stacks. A later addition extends from the north end of the building.
Local climate
Mere House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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