Number 14 Holden Cottage and Number 16 is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1988. A C16 House. 1 related planning application.

Number 14 Holden Cottage and Number 16

WRENN ID
turning-banister-jet
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
Number 14 Holden Cottage and Number 16, Front Street, Mendlesham, IP14 5RY
OS grid reference
TM 104 658
Coordinates
52.25022, 1.08182
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 14 (Holden Cottage) and Number 16 are two houses that were originally one, dating back to the 16th century, with significant rebuilding around 1600. The buildings are timber framed and rendered, designed to look like ashlar. The roof is slated at the front and pantiled at the rear. They are two storeys high with an attic, and there was once a jetty overhanging the street, which has since been underbuilt.

The front features two mid-20th century casement windows, with the windows at Number 16 having diamond-leaded glass. The doors are mid-20th century reproduction-style battened plank doors. There is a brick stack to the right at the junction with Number 10, which has a plain narrow brick shaft. At the rear of Number 16, there is a heavy stack, with its base located within a later addition.

Inside, the upper rooms retain intact studding and show evidence of tripartite windows at the front, with two in Number 16 featuring replacement ovolo mullions. The plain joists in the ceilings are set flat, with those in the upper ceilings being reused. Number 16 also has a notable open fireplace with a four-centred brick arch, and the roof has stepped butt purlins.

Local climate

Number 14 Holden Cottage and Number 16 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
  • 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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