Lime Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. House.
Lime Cottage
- WRENN ID
- north-entrance-autumn
- 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
- Lime Cottage, Chapel Road, Mendlesham, IP14 5SQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 105 658
- Coordinates
- 52.25063, 1.08246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lime Cottage is a house that was formerly a public house, known as the Royal Oak Inn. It dates from the 17th century or earlier and underwent renovation in the mid-20th century. The building is timber framed, has roughcast-rendered walls, and features a pantiled roof. It is a single long range with two storeys and five windows, primarily mid-20th century casements. There is one 19th-century casement window on the far left, beneath which is a 20th-century former shop window. To the left of the doorway is a 19th-century sash window with glazing bars. The door is a standard mid-20th century design, while the doorcase, dating from around 1800, includes an eared architrave, frieze, and a pedimented cornice. Inside, there is an internal stack with a square shaft and another stack from the 17th or 18th century located against the rear wall. The interior has not been examined.
Local climate
Lime Cottage 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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