42, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
42, High Street
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-bonework-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 42, High Street, Long Melford, CO10 9BD
- OS grid reference
- TL 869 474
- Coordinates
- 52.09383, 0.7276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a small, 18th-century timber-framed and plastered cottage located on the west side of High Street, Long Melford. It is a single-storey building with attics, featuring a three-window front with small casement windows containing glazing bars. A boarded front door is present. The roof is now covered with 20th-century tiles, though it was originally thatched, and there is an old chimney stack at the south end.
Local climate
42, High Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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