The Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- roaming-tin-onyx
- 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
- The Manor House, Mellis Road, Thrandeston, IP21 4BU
- OS grid reference
- TM 112 763
- Coordinates
- 52.34493, 1.09938
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a house dating from around 1580, which has been partly demolished and altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered, with a steeply pitched plain tiled roof. Originally larger, the remaining structure likely consisted of a hall and parlour, with service bays to the left. The house has two storeys and an attic, with a continuous jetty at the front and back. The front has four windows, and the entrance is now located to the right of the centre, featuring a 19th-century rectangular fanlight and 20th-century cross casements. The building has a plinth and a jetty supported by unbraced butt-ended joists leading to the bressumer.
The right gable end has an early external stack with offsets and a tapering shaft, while an inserted stack is located internally at the left end. The rear jetty displays guilloche ornament on the bressumer, and the original herringbone brick nogging is visible on the first floor, although these features are partially obscured by a 20th-century pantiled lean-to outshut. The first floor includes an original five-light cyma recta mullioned window with flanking two-light casements, as well as three 19th-century two-light gabled dormers.
Inside, the parlour features crossed roll and ovolo moulded binding beams with high-quality acanthus carved faces, each beam differing in detail and clearly reflecting Renaissance style. The hall has a three-light cyma recta mullioned window opening, a stop-chamfered axial binding beam, and close studding with curved braces. The first floor has always been ceiled with stop-chamfered axial binding beams and collars clasping purlins.
Local climate
The Manor 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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