Pountney Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
Pountney Hall
- WRENN ID
- final-truss-meadow
- 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
- Pountney Hall, the Common, Mellis, IP23 8EF
- OS grid reference
- TM 081 737
- Coordinates
- 52.32198, 1.05293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pountney Hall is a house dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, originally built for the Clarke family. It was reduced in size and altered around 1810. The house is timber-framed with clay lump additions, with plastered walls and steeply pitched plain tiled roofs. It was once a larger, half-H shaped house, and the remaining three-cell block was probably originally a service range.
The two-storey house with attics has a front elevation featuring a raised panelled and partly glazed door to the right of centre, with a hooded architrave. Flanking the door are early 19th-century, three-light glazing bar casements with cusped Gothic heads. The first floor also has three-light glazing bar casements. Boxed eaves are present. A stack has been inserted into the front roof slope. The right gable end has an extruded stack with projecting brick bands, exposed plates and double purlins. Similar three and four-light casements with Gothic heads and hood moulds are visible on the left gable end.
The rear elevation has a raised panelled architraved door, flanked by three-light glazing bar casements, and two-light casements on the first floor to the left. To the rear right is an early dairy bay with a separate parallel roof, featuring two-light casements, brackets to exposed plates, single purlins, and raised eaves.
Attached to the right of the main range and the dairy bay are two parallel 19th-century clay lump service outshuts with lower parallel roofs, double doors, a three-light casement and a gable end pentice board. Interior details are not documented.
Local climate
Pountney Hall 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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