Gateway and Lodges to Melford Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 April 1971. Gateway, lodge.
Gateway and Lodges to Melford Hall
- WRENN ID
- pitched-arch-hyssop
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Gateway, lodge
- Address
- Gateway and Lodges to Melford Hall, the Green East, Long Melford
- OS grid reference
- TL 865 462
- Coordinates
- 52.08356, 0.72177
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gateway and Lodges to Melford Hall is a notable Elizabethan red brick structure, built around 1559, contemporaneously with Melford Hall and in a similar architectural style. The gateway features a four-centred moulded brick archway, topped with a stone panel that displays a carved coat of arms. Flanking the gateway are two Victorian gabled lodges that harmonize well with the original design. The gateway is adorned with octagonal towers that rise from large square bases, transitioning into octagonal shapes. These towers echo the design elements of Melford Hall and include leaded windows beneath ogee domed roofs, which are embellished with shell-decorated lunettes and later decorative wrought iron finials. The single-storey lodges on either side of the gateway have parapets and stopped gables, with leaded casement windows featuring moulded brick reveals and square hood moulds. Each lodge also has external chimney stacks, each with two octagonal shafts, and the roofs are tiled.
Local climate
Gateway and Lodges to Melford Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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