Bells House and Village Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.
Bells House and Village Stores
- WRENN ID
- eternal-groin-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Bells House and Village Stores, Hall Street, Long Melford, CO10 9JL
- OS grid reference
- TL 863 458
- Coordinates
- 52.07919, 0.71856
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bells House and Village Stores is a 17th-century timber-framed house that is now mostly covered in red brick. The southern section is faced in modern brick, while the northern section features 18th-century red brick with blue brick headers and a raised brick band running across the front. The building has a 2:4 window arrangement, with double-hung sash windows in plain reveals on the southern part and 20th-century casements on the northern part. The ground floor includes a small 19th-century shop front with segmental arched lights. The roof is hipped and tiled, and there is a wing extending to the west at the north end.
Local climate
Bells House and Village Stores 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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