Radio Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Residential. 4 related planning applications.
Radio Cottages
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-basalt-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Radio Cottages, Hall Street, Long Melford, CO10 9JR
- OS grid reference
- TL 862 455
- Coordinates
- 52.07675, 0.71661
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Radio Cottages is a range of early to mid-19th century brick houses located on Hall Street in Long Melford. The buildings are two storeys high and have been painted. They feature a four-window range with double-hung sash windows that have glazing bars, set in plain reveals with segmental arched heads. The ground floor windows are three-light, and the central tenement includes a small shop window. There are four six-panel doors, and the roofs are covered with slate. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Radio Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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