1-4 Long Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1961. Houses. 1 related planning application.
1-4 Long Gardens
- WRENN ID
- outer-fireplace-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1961
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 1-4 Long Gardens, High Street, Acton
- OS grid reference
- TL 892 449
- Coordinates
- 52.07058, 0.76007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A range of 17th century timber-framed and plastered houses located at Long Gardens, Acton, which have been considerably altered. The buildings are two storeys high and feature 20th century casement windows. The roofs are tiled and include a central chimney stack with sawtooth shafts at the east end.
Local climate
1-4 Long Gardens 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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