Gardens Walls to Melford Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. A C16 Garden wall.

Gardens Walls to Melford Hall

WRENN ID
third-banister-indigo
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1978
Type
Garden wall
Address
Gardens Walls to Melford Hall, the Green East, Long Melford
OS grid reference
TL 865 461
Coordinates
52.0827, 0.72157
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden walls to Melford Hall, dating from around 1559, are significant structures that enclose the garden on the north, west, and south sides. These walls are made of massive red brick and feature buttresses, a sloping brick capping, and a sawtooth brick dentil course. The walls stand approximately 10 to 12 feet high. Notably, the west wall is interrupted by an octagonal summer house located at the north end.

Local climate

Gardens Walls to 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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