Numbers 2, 4 and Vine House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. Shop, house. 3 related planning applications.

Numbers 2, 4 and Vine House

WRENN ID
tall-plinth-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1955
Type
Shop, house
Address
Numbers 2, 4 and Vine House, Front Street, Mendlesham, IP14 5RY
OS grid reference
TM 105 658
Coordinates
52.25032, 1.08253
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 2, 4 and Vine House are originally one house, now divided into three houses and a shop. The building has a core dating back to the 16th century, but was largely rebuilt in the late 18th century and altered in the early 1970s. It is constructed of red brick, with a first-floor brick band and a brick dentil eaves cornice. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The building is two storeys and has attics, with a seven-window front; the windows are mostly 3-light casements without glazing bars, dating from around 1972, with the exception of the window on the far right, which is 18th century. Flat, gauged brick arches feature above the windows, and those at Vine House have been largely rebuilt. Number 2 has a projecting shopfront from the early 20th century, with single-pane windows. Vine House has a prominent late 18th-century doorway with an eared architrave, a frieze with fluted ends that support a pedimented cornice, panelled reveals, and a 6-panel raised and fielded door. A doorway was inserted in the 1970s for number 4, featuring a panelled door and a pedimented doorcase. Six gabled dormers, mostly dating from the 1970s, light the attics. A central stack has a cross-axial shaft. Internally, the main ground-floor room in number 4 retains 16th-century ceiling joists. Vine House contains a late 18th-century staircase, with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail.

Local climate

Numbers 2, 4 and Vine 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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