The Black Lion Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Inn. 5 related planning applications.
The Black Lion Inn
- WRENN ID
- sharp-pavement-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Black Lion Inn, Church Walk, Long Melford, CO10 9DN
- OS grid reference
- TL 865 465
- Coordinates
- 52.08609, 0.72074
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Black Lion Inn is a grey gault brick building dating from around 1830. It is located on the corner of Church Walk and Westgate Street, next to the 19th-century Westgate Terrace to the west. The inn has three storeys and features a south front with a four-window range and a canted bay that extends through all three storeys at the east end. The east front has a three-window range, with double-hung sash windows that include glazing bars, all set in plain reveals. The south front is slightly set back at the west end, which includes one window range and an elliptical arched carriageway on the ground storey. The ground storey windows are three-light, and the roof is hipped and covered with slate.
Local climate
The Black Lion Inn 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 2017
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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