Brandeston Hall

Brandeston Hall is a former manorial mansion, now functioning as a school. The original house was built around 1550 for Andrew Revett, but only the east wing and entrance porch survived a fire in 1847. The remainder of the building was reconstructed in 1848 for Charles Austin, a lawyer and head of the Parliamentary Bar. The structure is made of red brick with dark header diapering and features a plain tiled roof, designed in a Neo Tudor style with an asymmetrical L-shaped plan.

The north facade of the main range includes slightly projecting gabled wings, with the ground floor set forward and adorned with a moulded brick cornice. There are later single-storey additions on the right side. The building has two storeys and an attic, with stone mullion and transom casement windows. The entrance porch is two storeys high, featuring octagonal corner buttresses topped with moulded brick pinnacles and stone caps. The doorway has a two-centre moulded stone arch and a hoodmould with carved spandrels, leading to a 19th-century door. Above the doorway, there is a Latin inscription commemorating the acquisition of the Hall by Framlingham College in 1949.

The building also has a stone eaves cornice and a flat parapet with attic gables on either side of the entrance, all adorned with moulded brick pinnacles and stone caps. Several notable groups of circular flues with moulded brick detailing are present. The east wing contains the original stone newel stairs, and the library features a richly coloured 19th-century ceiling with roll-moulded joists and a four-centre arch stone fireplace with an elaborate carved wooden chimneypiece, likely imported. The masters' common room includes imported 17th-century panelling, a fine overmantel, and an ornamental plaster ceiling. The headmaster's study has similar panelling and overmantel, along with a ceiling decorated with painted portraits of 24 famous men. A good 19th-century wooden staircase with a richly painted ceiling is also present, along with ornamental plaster ceilings in the White Hall and dining hall, and a further notable fireplace in the games room. An extension was added to the west in 1967, which is not of special interest.