Oak Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1984. A Late C16 or early C17 House.
Oak Hall
- WRENN ID
- tenth-latch-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Period
- Late C16 or early C17
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Hall is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with a floor beam dated 1589, which may indicate the year it was built. The house features a rendered timber frame and a steeply-pitched slate roof with gabled ends, along with a brick axial stack.
The layout consists of a three-room plan with an axial stack that includes back-to-back fireplaces heating the central and southwest rooms, while the smaller room on the right is unheated. The original front doorway's position is uncertain, but there may have been a lobby entrance in front of the stack. A staircase is located behind the stack, and there is a 19th-century outshut behind it. The house was once divided into three cottages but has since been reunited into a single dwelling.
The building has two storeys and an attic, with an asymmetrical arrangement of three to four windows. It features large late 20th-century wooden mullion windows, some with smaller sidelights, and a doorway to the right of the centre with a 20th-century plank door. At the rear, there are various 20th-century casements, two dormers, and a 19th-century brick outshut to the right of centre.
Inside, all wall studding has been replaced, and both the southwest and northeast gable walls have been rebuilt. The first floors over the right and left-hand rooms have also been replaced. The central room includes a chamfered cross-beam and joists with straight cut stops, along with a large fireplace featuring a raised lintel. A partition between the central and right-hand rooms has been rebuilt. The left-hand room contains a brick fireplace with a raised lintel. The chambers above the hall and right-hand room have chamfered cross-beams and exposed joists, and there are curved braces in the partitions of the stack bay, along with exposed jowled wall-posts. The roof structure is entirely from the 19th or early 20th century.
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