Remains of College at Mettingham Castle is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Monastic college ruins.

Remains of College at Mettingham Castle

WRENN ID
rusted-gallery-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Type
Monastic college ruins
Address
Remains of College at Mettingham Castle, Castle Road
OS grid reference
TM 360 886
Coordinates
52.44479, 1.47144
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The remains of a monastic college are located to the south of Mettingham Castle, within a small moated enclosure inside the main castle moat. The college was transferred to this site in 1382 from its original location at Raveningham in Norfolk, with the move to Mettingham completed by 1393. The site features several substantial sections of flint rubble walls with red brick dressings, some of which retain original window openings. Additionally, the lower part of a square tower is present, featuring lancet window openings. The site is also recorded in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, Vol. 4, pages 77-89, and is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Local climate

Remains of College at Mettingham Castle 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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