Butley Abbey and Priory Rere-Dorter (Refectory) is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. Rere-dorter. 2 related planning applications.
Butley Abbey and Priory Rere-Dorter (Refectory)
- WRENN ID
- winding-gable-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1966
- Type
- Rere-dorter
- Address
- Butley Abbey and Priory Rere-Dorter (Refectory), IP12 3NP
- OS grid reference
- TM 375 491
- Coordinates
- 52.08979, 1.46591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Butley Abbey and Priory Rere-Dorter, also known as the Refectory, is a barn that served as the rere-dorter for Butley Abbey. It dates from the early 13th century and has been restored and incorporated into 20th-century farm buildings. The structure is built of random stone and flint, topped with a thatched roof. It features stepped buttresses at the corners and on either side of the barn doors. There are two unglazed slit openings with four red brick mullions. The barn has 20th-century double ledged framed and braced doors with glazed lights above.
Local climate
Butley Abbey and Priory Rere-Dorter (Refectory) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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