Down Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. House.
Down Hall
- WRENN ID
- muted-pavement-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Down Hall, Brettenham Road, Preston St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- TL 943 516
- Coordinates
- 52.12926, 0.83791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Down Hall is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 16th to 17th century, featuring a cross wing at the north end. The roof is tiled. The main block has one storey with attics, while the cross wing has two storeys and a jettied upper storey at the front. The building has modern casement windows and three gabled dormers on the front.
Local climate
Down Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- No related consent applications matched
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