Old Court House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1977. Court house. 2 related planning applications.
Old Court House
- WRENN ID
- last-wall-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1977
- Type
- Court house
- Address
- Old Court House, 1-4, Hall Street, Long Melford, CO10 9DY
- OS grid reference
- TL 865 459
- Coordinates
- 52.08044, 0.72057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Court House is a mid-19th century red brick building located on Hall Street in Long Melford. It features yellow brick rusticated quoins and window dressings. The structure consists of a central two-storey block with a stopped gable at the front, flanked by single-storey side wings that have parapets. The central block slightly projects forward. The building has a window arrangement of 1:2:1, with three-light mullioned and transomed casements that include glazing bars. Both the windows and the doorway are topped with square hood moulds. The roof is slate-covered. At the rear, tall brick walls were constructed for protection following the Melford Riots of 1885. The Old Court House has been converted into flats.
Local climate
Old Court 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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