Stone House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1988. House.
Stone House
- WRENN ID
- floating-mortar-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Stone House, 40, Old Market Street, Mendlesham, IP14 5SA
- OS grid reference
- TM 103 658
- Coordinates
- 52.25032, 1.07987
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stone House is a house dating from the 16th century, featuring a two-cell main range with 18th and 19th century additions to the right, including a small barn that was converted into living accommodation around 1980. The building is timber framed and rendered, with tarred weatherboards on the right return wall. It has a concrete-pantiled roof over the main block and a shallow-pitched slated roof to the right. The house stands two storeys tall with an attic on the left side and has four windows, which are two and three-light casements likely from the early 20th century. The upper windows each have a slender horizontal glazing bar. The doorway features a mid-20th century surround and a glazed door, and there is one dormer with a small-paned two-light window. A stack with a plain 18th century shaft is located against the right gable end of the main block, with an internal stack at the junction with the house to the left.
Inside, the 16th century first floor frame remains intact in three bays. The ground floor includes a two-bay room on the left, which has been reduced in size. It features storey posts with cut-back heads and exposed plain joists in one bay. The fireplace has a massive lintel and brickwork with remnants of mortar joint lining, although the opening has been narrowed. The room to the right has closely spaced plain joists and a side purlin roof. The building was a public house known as The Brewers Arms in the early 20th century.
Local climate
Stone House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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