Old Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. Farmhouse.
Old Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-mantel-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Hall Farmhouse, the Street, Letheringham
- OS grid reference
- TM 279 580
- Coordinates
- 52.17357, 1.33272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse that was formerly a manor house, dating from the mid to late 16th century, and possibly incorporating some elements from an earlier building. It features a timber frame with some colourwashed 19th-century Flemish bond brick walling and colourwashed render. The roof is of plaintile, originally thatched. The building has two storeys with an attic.
The road front includes a projecting wing near the center, likely from the 19th century, which has a central window with a large pane below and three lights above. There is a three-light 19th-century casement window on the first floor. To the right of this wing, there are two bays with an outshut at ground floor level, featuring a slate roof and brick walling, which is set with two cambered-headed three-light casements. Above these, there are two similar first-floor windows. To the left of the wing, the ground floor has brick walling with a three-light window with a cambered head to the right and a cambered-headed garage door at the far left. Above these, there are two three-light casement windows on the first floor.
A chimney stack with moulded brick bands is located at the ridge left of center, with the upper part rebuilt. A similar stack on the right has been entirely rebuilt in the 19th century. The right gable end features brick walling at ground floor level, with a cambered-headed two-light window to the right and a two-light attic window.
At the rear, there is a projecting gabled wing to the right of center, behind which a change in the levels of the ridge is evident. This wing has a six-light ground floor window and a four-light first-floor casement. To the left is an outshut with two two-light casements, and another two-light casement is located on the first floor. To the right of the wing are further 19th-century outshuts.
Inside, the ground floor features chamfered end-stopped 16th-century ceiling beams on wall posts. The first floor has further jowled wall posts and tie beams, both of which have mortice holes for arched braces that have since been removed. The roof is likely from the 17th century and includes wind braces.
Local climate
Old Hall Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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