The Priory is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1954. House. 1 related planning application.
The Priory
- WRENN ID
- veiled-corbel-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Priory, Priory Road, Wrentham, NR34 7LR
- OS grid reference
- TM 496 830
- Coordinates
- 52.3887, 1.66677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priory is a house dating from the early 18th century, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed of red brick with a pantiled roof. The house is two storeys and an attic, with a symmetrical facade featuring two window bays. The windows are 3-light mullion and transom casements, with square-leaded panes; one window opening has been blocked. A lobby entrance leads to a two-storey mid-19th century Gothic porch featuring a pointed 2-centre arched doorway with a boarded and battened door. The porch facade is decorated with pictorial tiles set into sunk brick panels, and it has a crenellated parapet. Single-storey additions with crenellated parapets flank the porch. A mid-20th century arched doorway is located at the extreme left of the facade. A brick modillion eaves cornice runs along the roofline, and there are parapet gable ends. Internal and gable end stacks are present. At the rear, three original flat-roofed dormer windows and a cross window, all with square-leaded panes, remain. A two-storey 19th-century range adjoins the right side, featuring a bay of blank panels; a single-storey 19th-century range is located to the left, with four blank panels.
Local climate
The Priory receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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