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Cock & Bell Lane, SUDBURY, CO10 9JN

A fine Georgian house on the main Street in Long Melford, once the house of Admiral William Hanwell, an officer of the British fleet in the 18th ceentury.

Hanwell House in Hall Street has an 18th century red brick front to an earlier timber framed and plastered building. Both storeys have Venetian windows with pointed arched glazing bars and there is a fine doorcase with an open pediment. The blue plaque advises that Admiral William Hanwell lived there in the early 19th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1351837 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.

Southdown House and shop in Hall Street is a 19th century red brick building possibly incorporating and earlier core. The shop was for many years home to a family butcher, more recently a beauty clinic. Listed, for group value, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1351838 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.