The Manse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House.
The Manse
- WRENN ID
- burning-gutter-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Manse, Hall Street, Long Melford
- OS grid reference
- TL 862 454
- Coordinates
- 52.07576, 0.71626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manse is an 18th century timber-framed and plastered house located on Hall Street in Long Melford. It stands two storeys high and features a three-window range on both the east and south fronts, with double-hung sash windows that have single vertical glazing bars. The ground storey windows are adorned with cornices. A central porch projects from the east front, while there is a central doorway on the south front. The roof is tiled, hipped, and steeply pitched, featuring a central chimney stack and one hipped dormer on the north side. Additionally, there is a coved plaster eaves cornice.
Local climate
The Manse 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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