Crope Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1988. House.
Crope Hall
- WRENN ID
- last-railing-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Crope Hall, Charity Lane, Belstead
- OS grid reference
- TM 124 405
- Coordinates
- 52.0224, 1.09475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crope Hall is a house from the mid-16th century, constructed with a timber frame and rendered exterior, topped with a hipped plain tile roof. It features a two-cell end chimney plan and stands two storeys high. On the right-hand return, there is a large external offset stack made of 16th-century English bond brickwork. The building has a 20th-century porch and door, with two 20th-century timber casements to the right. Above these, there are three first-floor casements aligned with the ground floor openings. A lean-to is present on the left and rear, where part of the original wall has been removed.
Inside, the exposed frame shows arched braces from post to stud, along with evidence of wattle slots. Some of the frame in the left-hand cell has been removed, and the main beam has been reset. There is a large open brick fireplace with a chamfered bressumer, and an axial beam featuring an almost lambs tongue stop. The stairs are located in the original space at the rear but have been turned around. On the first floor, there are blocked mortices for a three-light diamond mullion window, along with shutter grooves in the front wall and in one reused internal partition.
Local climate
Crope Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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