The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- standing-cobalt-thunder
- 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
- The Old Rectory, the Street, Mendham
- OS grid reference
- TM 269 828
- Coordinates
- 52.39686, 1.33508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house dating from the early 17th century, consisting of two sections of differing heights. The main part is a single-cell parlour range, while a smaller section to the right is likely older. The building is timber framed and plastered, featuring a plain tiled roof, except for the rear of the right section, which has a pantiled roof. It stands two storeys and an attic on the left side and one and a half storeys on the right.
The house has 19th-century casement windows, with pointed arches in the upper part of the lights on the main section. There is an ogee-headed window with Y-tracery and square-leaded panes in the left gable. A mid-20th-century gabled entrance porch and door are present, along with a gable stack to the right of the main range. Inside, the main part features an ovolo-moulded bridging beam on the ground floor, exposed first floor framing, original newel stairs with two flights, and floorboarding. The roof is constructed with side purlins and cranked wind-bracing.
Local climate
The Old Rectory 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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