Long Melford buildings [29]
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Long Melford buildings [29]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 13 Sep 2020
Now three properties named Hawthorne, Girton and Hildon, is this medieval hall house with two crosswings. Timber framed and stuccoed, much altered in the 16th and 17th centuries, refronted in gault brick an altered again in the 19th century. All three properties have canted bay windows and all are in commercial use. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1351835 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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