Crepping Hall

Crepping Hall is a house with a core dating back to the 16th century or earlier, and a front range built in the 18th century, with 19th and 20th century extensions to the rear. The front range is constructed of red brick with a hipped red plain tile roof, featuring two gabled dormers and terracotta ridge finials. The building is two storeys and has attics. The central bay projects forward. The front elevation has a parapet, a band, and a central band. It features ball finials at the angles. The window arrangement is 2:1:2, with vertically sliding sash windows, small panes in the upper sashes. The first floor has a central tripartite Venetian window with a moulded round head, a keystone to the centre light, and moulded cornices to the side lights. A central doorway is flanked by side lights, and has rusticated pilasters, console brackets to the cornice, a dentilled and moulded open pediment, a six-panel door, and a round-headed fanlight with tracery. The left and right rear return wings are of red brick with red plain tile roofs, with a rear chimney stack to the left range and a forward-projecting ridge stack to the right range. These rear ranges have a two-window range of 20th-century small-paned casements. The Manor of Crepping Hall was granted to Humfry Wingfield in 1538 and to Thomas Seckford in 1562. Previously, the Manor belonged to Colne Priory, Essex, according to White's Suffolk directory of 1844.