IChurch · listed 1978Holy Trinity ChurchOn the list as Church of the Holy TrinityPhoto: mym · CC BY-SA 2.0
Church House Mill Ford House West Lynn · Photo: Dave.Dunford · CC BY-SA 4.0A+History Grade
History of Long Melford · Historic England
184 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Long Melford’s built-up area, 472 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 28% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 11 of its listed buildings. Long Melford grades A+ for history: #1 of 34 in Suffolk.
Listed buildings
184
472 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
2
exceptional interest
Grade II*
6
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
2 registered parks & gardens
Homes built before 1919
28%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Long Melford in 13 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of the Holy TrinityGrade I listed
Trinity Hospital Trinity HosptialGrade I listed
Kentwell HallGrade II* park or garden
Scutchers ArmsGrade II listed
Barclays Bank and Long Melford Post OfficeGrade II listed+8See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.
The map
Where Long Melford’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monumentPark or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
184 listed buildings by grade
2 Grade I6 Grade II*176 Grade II
Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
Grade I
The 2 Grade I listed buildings in Long Melford
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
IPublic · listed 1953Trinity HospitalOn the list as Trinity Hospital Trinity HosptialPhoto: Oxyman · CC BY-SA 2.0
Grade II*
The 6 Grade II* listed buildings in Long Melford
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*Inns & shops · listed 1961Bourchier Galleries, House and ShopPhoto: Dave.Dunford · CC BY-SA 3.0
II*House · listed 1953Brook HousePhoto: Dave.Dunford · CC BY-SA 3.0
II*Inns & shops · listed 1978Bull HotelPhoto: Simon Huguet · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Church · listed 1953Chapel at Melford PlacePhoto: Dave.Dunford · CC BY-SA 3.0
II*House · listed 1953The ElmsPhoto: Dave.Dunford · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*Walls & gates · listed 1953The Gate House, Corpus Christi and OakenPhoto: Dave.Dunford · CC BY-SA 3.0
Historic streets
Westgate Street has the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
Westgate Street7 listed
High Street4 listed
Little St Mary's3 listed
Of the 184 entries, 25 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
What’s protected
Most of Long Melford’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas139
Inns, shops & warehouses15
Walls, gates & bridges11
Public & civic buildings8
Churches, chapels & priories8
Street furniture2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
139 entries (76%) are houses, terraces and villas. 8 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 2 Grade I buildings.
Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.
Grade II
176 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
The first 150 of 176 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
AlmacksAngelas BoutiqueAnglia Cottage, 2 and 3 Anglia Cottages and Saffron CottageArdley House and Linden HouseArmstrongAurora House and Shop PerryvilleBarclays Bank and Long Melford Post OfficeBarn and Outbuilding to Bull Lane FarmhouseBells House and Village StoresBelmontBlythe HouseBoundary Wall Fronting the Green at the Primary SchoolBridge ViewBuilding Occupied by C J N Row and Sons; Outbuilding and Wall of Holgate to the SouthBull Lane FarmhouseBunyan Cottage and North Part of Melford GalleriesChapel HouseChapelsideChase CottageCherry Tree CottageChestnut CottageChestnut HouseChimneysChurch House Mill Ford House West LynnChurch RowCleeve CottageCo-Operative Store and Foundry HouseCobblersCock and Bell HotelConduit HouseConiston and Bixby CottageCordell CottagesCottage to the North West of Hall Mill HouseCrosskeysCrown InnDenmark HouseDixey CottageDorset CottageDuck CottageDunn HouseEast ViewEldon CottageEly HouseFalkland House and Jason HouseFernlea WestdeneFerns and Lion HouseFine Fare StoresFlemingsFord EndFormer Congregational ChapelFormer one window range house, now part of 27, Little St Mary'sGable EndGarage HouseGarden Wall to South and East of Trininty Hospital Garden Wall to South and East of Trinity HospitalGeorge and Dragon InnGrange HouseGreen ShuttersH and A.W Palmer Funeral ServiceHall Mill HouseHanwell HouseHare InnHawthorne, Girton and HildonHigh Street FarmhouseHill HouseHolgateHouse Owned by Alston Limited Adjoining Cocoanut House on the NorthHouse and Shopowned by Mr S J Collett to the South of Brook StreetIona and ElvertonJamon Tudor CottagesK6 Telephone KioskKentwell LodgeKings Cottage, Little St Marys Cottage, Archway Cottage and Oriole CottageKings Farm and Oriole CottageLime Cottage, Magpie Cottage and RuskinLime Tree House the LindensList HouseLong Melford SaddleryLong Melford War MemorialLotus Cottage Westbury MilestoneLower HollandLyston HouseMalthouseMaltings and Granary to the North of Chapel House, Chapel GreenMartinsMelford HouseMersea HouseMontgomery HouseNumber 9 Chapel GreenNumbers 1 and 2 Dairy Cottages and DairyNumbers 2 and 3Oakleigh and ShopOld Court HouseOld Forge CottagePark TerracePark ViewPink CottagePosting HousePound HallPound Hall CottagesPrimary SchoolPrimrose CottageRadio CottagesRadio HouseRed House and Cocoanut HouseRuse and Son and Ruse HouseRussets and Whos CottageScutchers ArmsScutchers CottagesSerpentine WallSerpentine Wall Enclosing Gardens at the Rear of Former Congregational ChapelSerpentine Wall on the South Side of Westgate StreetShangri laShop Premises and Bassetts HouseShop and House Occupied by Mr E S Wright Adjoining Nos 1 to 5 (Consecutive) on the NorthSloane Cottage and Nos. 1 to 3 Lower Falkland CottagesSouth Part of Melford Galleries and Garage PremisesSouthdown House and Premises Occupied by E W Clarke (Butcher)St Mary'sStables and Outbuildings to Westgate HouseStone CottageTeal CottageThatched CottageThe Beverley Adjoining Cottage and ShopThe Black Lion InnThe Cottage and Abbotts CloseThe Dower HouseThe GablesThe Garage HouseThe LaurelsThe ManseThe NookeryThe Old BakeryThe Old CottageThe PharmacyThe Swan InnThorpe HouseTudor CottagesTwincott and Garage (Occupied by Theobalds Coaches)Ty-GwynUpper Falkland HouseVillage ClocksWain HouseWalcot HouseWall to the East of Former Congregational ChapelWall to the West of Brook HouseWalnuttree HouseWestgate CottageWestgate HouseWestgate TerraceWhite Cottage
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 32% of Long Melford
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Long Melford 197344 ha
44 hain conservation areas, of 137 ha inside the built-up area.
180 of the 184 listed buildings stand in one.
Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.
How the list grew
More than half of Long Melford’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1978
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1978 · 1331953 · 281961 · 16
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 28 entries were listed in 1953, 1 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. 133 came in 1978, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 scheduled monument
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.
2 registered parks and gardens
Kentwell HallGrade II*
Trinity HospitalGrade II
History Grade
Long Melford grades A+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (199 points, 511 per 10,000 residents)More than 96% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (28%)More than 80% of UK towns
Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.
Homes by age
28% of Long Melford’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
27%
Before 1900
0.9%
1900–18
1.8%
1919–29
3.4%
1930s
4.2%
1945–54
2.9%
1955–64
16%
1965–72
8.3%
1973–82
6.7%
1983–92
8.1%
1993–99
3.7%
2000–08
2.3%
2009–15
15%
2016–25
Long MelfordEngland & Wales
27% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 16% of today’s homes.
Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (10 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
7 notable people born in Long Melford before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Sir Roger Martin, 1st Baronet
Sir Roger Martin, 2nd Baronet
Sir Roger Martin, 3rd Baronet
William Cobbold
Wickham Steed
William Bennett Kilpack
Sydney Schofield
16001650170017501800185019001950
William Cobbold1863–1922 · English footballer (1863-1922)
Wickham Steed1871–1956 · British journalist (1871-1956)
WK
William Bennett Kilpack1883–1962 · Mystery radio actor (1883-1962)
SB
Sir Roger Martin, 1st Baronet1639–1712 · English Baronet
Sir Roger Martin, 2nd Baronet1667–1742 · English baronet; (1667-1742)
SB
Sir Roger Martin, 3rd Baronet1689–1762 · British baronet; (1689-1762)
SS
Sydney Schofield1883–1956 · British racewalker
Everyone born in Long Melford → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
Long Melford has the 42nd most Grade I buildings of 1,056 towns its size
Places of 2,000–6,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Long Melford2
#21 of 1,056for listed buildings per resident (472 per 10,000). Sandwich, Tenby and Dolgellau lead.
41 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Long Melford
In brief
Long Melford in brief
For its size, Long Melford has more listed heritage than 96% of UK towns. In all there are 184 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I, including Holy Trinity Church. Of its homes, 28% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Only 41 of the 1,056 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.
A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Of the whole list, 76% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 7 people born here before 1900, the best known include William Cobbold (1863), Wickham Steed (1871) and William Bennett Kilpack (1883). The rest is about typical: it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Long Melford’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Long Melford?
Historic England lists 184 buildings inside Long Melford’s built-up area: 2 Grade I, 6 Grade II* and 176 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Long Melford?
2, including Church of the Holy Trinity and Trinity Hospital Trinity Hosptial.
Which street in Long Melford has the most listed buildings?
Westgate Street (7), High Street (4) and Little St Mary's (3) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
Are there scheduled monuments in Long Melford?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Roman villa at Liston Lane.
How many conservation areas are there in Long Melford?
1, covering about 44 hectares of the town. The largest is Long Melford.
When were Long Melford’s buildings listed?
The first in 1953; the most, 133, in 1978.
Who was born in Long Melford?
Among people born before 1900: William Cobbold (1863), Wickham Steed (1871), William Bennett Kilpack (1883), Sir Roger Martin, 1st Baronet (1639) and Sir Roger Martin, 2nd Baronet (1667).
How old are the homes in Long Melford?
28% of homes were built before 1919 and 33% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.
Sources: Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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