Mendham Priory is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. House. 4 related planning applications.
Mendham Priory
- WRENN ID
- rooted-sandstone-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mendham Priory, Witherdale, IP20 0JH
- OS grid reference
- TM 260 811
- Coordinates
- 52.3815, 1.32075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mendham Priory is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of white brick with a hipped slate roof. The five-bay entrance front features pilaster strips and inset sash windows with glazing bars, all under flat brick arches. French windows are present on the ground floor, leading to a pair of 3-panel doors, now behind 20th-century three-quarter-glazed doors, and an above segmental fanlight with ornamental glazing bars. A Roman Doric porch, supported by two pairs of fluted columns, has a frieze and mutule cornice, and a panelled soffit, standing on a three-stepped stone base. French windows are positioned above the porch, set within a broad segmental-headed recess. The three-bay garden front is in a matching style. To the right of the entrance is a lean-to conservatory; to the left, a doorway with fluted pilasters and an entablature, a glazed door, and a tall rectangular fanlight with intricate glazing bars, with panelled reveals. The entrance hall contains a mutule cornice, and both main ground floor rooms have enriched cornices, one featuring a central rosette.
Local climate
Mendham Priory 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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