Water Conduit is a Grade II* listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. A None specified Water conduit.
Water Conduit
- WRENN ID
- silent-pedestal-sienna
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- Water conduit
- Period
- None specified
- Address
- Water Conduit, the Green East, Long Melford
- OS grid reference
- TL 865 464
- Coordinates
- 52.08475, 0.722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Water Conduit is a 16th-century structure made of red brick, located 130 meters north of the entrance gate and lodges of Melford Hall. It has a square plan with octagonal corner buttresses topped with capped octagonal turrets. Each side features a truncated gable, while the north, south, and west sides have wide, blocked, 4-centred arched openings. The east side contains two arched openings, one of which is blocked. The upper part of the building was restored in the 19th century.
Local climate
Water Conduit 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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