Ferns and Lion House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. House.
Ferns and Lion House
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-slate-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ferns and Lion House, the Green West, Long Melford, CO10 9DT
- OS grid reference
- TL 865 465
- Coordinates
- 52.08584, 0.72072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ferns and Lion House is a timber-framed and plastered house featuring 18th-century external characteristics, built in an L-shaped plan. The building has two storeys, with a four-window arrangement on the east front and a two-window arrangement on the north front, both using double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The southern section, known as Ferns, includes two two-storeyed canted bays, while the northern section, referred to as Lion House, has a single-storeyed bay and a 19th-century double-fronted former shop window with segmental-headed lights. The doorways are adorned with moulded architraves and cornices, and they feature five-panel doors. The roofs are covered with old tiles and are hipped at both the north and south ends.
Local climate
Ferns and Lion House 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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