Fine Fare Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 April 1971. Shop.
Fine Fare Stores
- WRENN ID
- narrow-transept-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Fine Fare Stores, Hall Street, Long Melford
- OS grid reference
- TL 863 457
- Coordinates
- 52.07898, 0.71834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fine Fare Stores, formerly known as Oliver's Shop, is a timber-framed and plastered house dating from the 17th to 18th century, featuring stucco rusticated quoins. The building has two storeys and a two-window range. On the upper storey, there are three-light double-hung sashes without glazing bars. The ground storey showcases a 19th-century shop front with three canted bay windows and two doorways. The roof is hipped and tiled with old tiles, and there is a central chimney stack.
Local climate
Fine Fare Stores 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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