The Grange is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.

The Grange

WRENN ID
rusted-soffit-birch
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Address
The Grange, Wenhaston with Mells Hamlet, IP19 9HJ
OS grid reference
TM 387 758
Coordinates
52.32836, 1.50196
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Grange is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with an early 18th-century facade and gable end. It has an L-shaped plan and is constructed with timber framing, plastered on the left-hand gable and rear, while the facade and right-hand gable are made of red brick. The roof is covered with mid-20th-century plain tiles. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring a fine facade with brick bands at the first floor and eaves level, a flat parapet, and an eight-window range with sashes that have glazing bars in flush frames, all topped with flat brick arches. The doorway is asymmetrical, featuring a six-panel fielded door, a convex frieze, and a segmental pediment.

Inside, there is an internal stack with four very fine detached circular flues, which have elaborate moulded brick decoration on the shafts and original star caps; three flues are aligned, while the fourth is located at the rear on a corbelled base. The right-hand side has a Dutch gable with brick bands at both the first floor and eaves level, and there are two leaded cross windows at the rear. The main range includes early 18th-century panelling and fireplace surrounds. Notably, three early 18th-century pedimented dormer windows were removed in the 1960s.

Local climate

The Grange sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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