Friary Cottage Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1988. Farmhouse, dwelling. 3 related planning applications.
Friary Cottage Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-vault-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse, dwelling
- Address
- Friary Cottage Thatched Cottage, Mill Road, Mendlesham, IP14 5TA
- OS grid reference
- TM 099 656
- Coordinates
- 52.249, 1.07383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former farmhouse, now divided into two dwellings. The property consists of two distinct parts: a 16th-century hall range (Friary Cottage) and an early 17th-century parlour addition (Thatched Cottage). The building is timber-framed and rendered, with a thatched roof. The projecting ends of the wallplates of the parlour addition are supported on original carved console brackets. It is two storeys high, with an attic in the parlour block. The hall range has a jettied western elevation, showing exposed joist ends and two original supporting brackets. The windows are mainly casements, some dating from the late 19th century, and others from the mid-20th century. There is an old plank door to Friary Cottage and a mid-20th century door to Thatched Cottage. An internal stack is located where the two sections join; the heavy, sawtooth shaft was rebuilt in the 1980s. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Friary Cottage Thatched Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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