Long Melford buildings [7]

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Long Melford buildings [7]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 13 Sep 2020

Numbers 7 to 9 Hall Street occupy a 17th or 18th century timber framed and stuccoed house. Refronted in 1909 in gault brick, now painted. Number 8 has a 20th century double shop front and number 9 has a small shop 19th century shop front. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1351814 Long Melford is a large village in Suffolk near the border with Essex, some 3 miles north of Sudbury. The village gained its name because it stretches for two and three quarter miles essentially along a single road. There is evidence of occupation from every period from the Mesolithic. The village contains two stately homes, Kentwell Hall and Melford Hall, is home to one of the largest and richest "wool churches" in East Anglia with fine flushwork, and a superb almshouse founded in 1573.

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