The Priory is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1954. A C19 House, former union workhouse.
The Priory
- WRENN ID
- dusk-facade-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1954
- Type
- House, former union workhouse
- Address
- The Priory, 12, the Church Yard, Mildenhall High
- OS grid reference
- TL 709 745
- Coordinates
- 52.34248, 0.5084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priory is a house that was formerly a union workhouse, built in 1836 with alterations around 1900 and possibly an earlier core. The building has two storeys and features rendered masonry walls with parapets and Dutch gables at both ends of the front elevation, topped with slated roofs. The windows are mullioned and transomed casements dating from around 1900. The entrance has a 4-panelled arched partly-glazed door, framed by a reset 15th-century limestone surround that is arched and hollow-chamfered. Above the doorway is a heavily moulded label with a carved frieze displaying two shields, one flanked by angels and the other by lions. This doorway is believed to have been taken from the house of the Cellarer of St. Edmunds Abbey. There may have been an earlier range made of oak timber that was demolished around 1897, located at the front of the current house. Additionally, there is a rear wing built in 1836, made of gault brick with a slated roof, featuring horizontally sliding casements on the north side.
Local climate
The Priory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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