Summer House at Melford Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. A Renaissance Summer house.
Summer House at Melford Hall
- WRENN ID
- former-vault-larch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- Summer house
- Period
- Renaissance
- Address
- Summer House at Melford Hall, the Green East, Long Melford
- OS grid reference
- TL 865 462
- Coordinates
- 52.08323, 0.72181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Summer House at Melford Hall is a 16th-century red brick building that is two storeys high and has an octagonal shape. It features octagonal corner buttresses topped with octagonal pinnacles. Each side of the octagon has a gable, also surmounted by an octagonal pinnacle. The windows are 18th-century double-hung sashes with glazing bars, set in stone surrounds that have square hood moulds. Access to the upper storey is via a straight flight of steps on the east side, which leads to a porch supported by short fluted columns. The Summer House is integrated into the west wall of Melford Hall at its northern end.
Local climate
Summer House at Melford Hall 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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