Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House.

Thatch

WRENN ID
long-spandrel-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1987
Type
House
Address
Thatch, Rectory Road, Mellis
OS grid reference
TM 097 740
Coordinates
52.32406, 1.07687
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thatch is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions from the 18th or 19th century and alterations made in the 20th century. It has a timber frame that is plastered and features a thatched roof. The building appears to follow a three-cell lobby entry plan, though it was likely originally two cells with an external stack, with one bay added to the left. It has one storey and an attic. The entrance is located at the original left end, featuring a half-glazed door set within an open glazed and trellissed porch with a gabled roof. There are two-light glazing bar casements and two projecting triangulated windows from the 20th century, along with two gabled dormers that also have two lights. The ridge stack has been rebuilt and was probably originally external at the left end. The eaves are lower on the added bay, and there are 20th-century additions to the rear. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Thatch 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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