Ford End is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House.
Ford End
- WRENN ID
- gilded-wattle-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ford End, Hall Street, Long Melford
- OS grid reference
- TL 865 459
- Coordinates
- 52.08024, 0.7204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford End is a late 18th century or early 19th century front added to an earlier timber-framed and plastered house located on Hall Street in Long Melford. The building has two storeys and features a two-window range with double-hung sashes that include glazing bars. There is a modern doorway topped with a pedimented hood, and the roof is tiled.
Local climate
Ford End 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
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- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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