Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. A C16 House. 4 related planning applications.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-garret-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Cottage, the Street, Mendham, IP20 0NH
- OS grid reference
- TM 269 828
- Coordinates
- 52.3969, 1.33465
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a house that was later divided into three cottages. It was built in three phases, primarily during the 16th and 17th centuries, and was renovated around 1949. The structure is timber framed with roughcast render, and the right gable end is made of common brick. There are some rear lean-tos constructed from tarred clay lump. The roof is covered with pantiles. The building has two storeys and an attic on the left-hand section. It features a range of four small 19th-century casement windows and one sash window on the right. There are two doorways: one with a plank door and another with a 19th-century four-panel door that has glazed upper panels. The central section of the house consists of a two-cell range, likely from the 16th century, which includes plain ground floor joists and cranked corner bracing. To the left is a 17th-century single-cell addition with a stack positioned against the earlier range. The right end of the house is probably from the 18th or 19th century and features a gable stack.
Local climate
Church Cottage 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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