Red House and Cocoanut House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House. 5 related planning applications.

Red House and Cocoanut House

WRENN ID
bitter-gable-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1978
Type
House
Address
Red House and Cocoanut House, Hall Street, Long Melford, CO10 9JQ
OS grid reference
TL 864 458
Coordinates
52.07977, 0.71909
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a timber-framed house dating from the 16th century, with cross wings at the north and south ends, the south wing likely added in the 17th century. The entire building was almost completely refronted in red brick during the 19th century; a panel on the south gable bears the date 1881. The house has two storeys and a four-window front, featuring double-hung sash windows with glazing bars in moulded brick reveals with serrated ornamental segmental heads. The outer windows are three-light. A six-panel door with a shallow fanlight, pilasters, and a cornice is located in the south wing. Modern shop windows are on the ground storey, and a 19th-century shop front has been incorporated into the north cross wing, which is now office premises. The roofs are tiled, and the gables have 19th-century ornamental bargeboards. Inside, the ground storey of the north wing features moulded ceiling beams and joists.

Local climate

Red House and Cocoanut House 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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  • 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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