Shop Premises and Bassetts House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Shop. 3 related planning applications.
Shop Premises and Bassetts House
- WRENN ID
- deep-pinnacle-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Shop Premises and Bassetts House, Hall Street, Long Melford, CO10 9JQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 864 458
- Coordinates
- 52.07961, 0.7189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bassetts House and the shop premises on Hall Street are a timber-framed and plastered building from the 18th century, which originally consisted of two tenements. The northern section is made of 19th-century brick and is colourwashed. The building has two storeys, with the southern part featuring two windows and the northern part having three windows, all fitted with double-hung sashes that include glazing bars. The southern section contains a double-fronted shop from the 18th or early 19th century, also with glazing bars. The northern section has two small 19th-century bay windows, one of which has modern glazing, and a central doorway that is adorned with a Tuscan-style portico, featuring plain columns and a flat cornice hood. The roof is tiled.
Local climate
Shop Premises and Bassetts 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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