Witherdale Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. Inn. 1 related planning application.
Witherdale Cross
- WRENN ID
- silver-column-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1987
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Witherdale Cross, Witherdale Street, Mendham, IP20 0JD
- OS grid reference
- TM 270 810
- Coordinates
- 52.38021, 1.33487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Withersdale Cross is a house that was formerly known as the Golden Cross inn. It dates back to the 16th century, with a single-storey gabled addition to the right that is likely from the 18th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, featuring a front roof covered with plain tiles, while the rear has a combination of pantiles and slates. It has two storeys and an attic, arranged in a three-cell layout. The front displays various old casement windows, with a range of three visible. There is a 19th-century half-glazed entrance door located in the side wall of the later addition. Inside, there is an internal stack and much good quality but plain timbering, along with several blocked mullioned windows. In the section of the front wall that is now part of the later addition, two well-crafted diamond-mullioned windows have been opened out, and there are newel stairs present.
Local climate
Witherdale Cross 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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