Long Melford houses [103]

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Long Melford houses [103]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 13 Sep 2020

Oriel Cottage, Little St Mary's occupies the main range of one house and the northern crosswing of the adjoining house. The other part of the northern house (to the left) is Kings Farm Image The other part of the southern house (to the right) is Archway Cottage and Kings Cottage Image The northern house is 16th or 17th century, timber framed and stuccoed with a main range and a crosswing to the north. The southern house is similar, possibly with an earlier core, and has two crosswings. The shop front is 19th century. Both houses are listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1351866 (northern) and at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1033638 (southern). 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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