Butterfly Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.

Butterfly Hall

WRENN ID
half-forge-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 April 1986
Type
House
Address
Butterfly Hall, the Street, Rumburgh, IP19 0JY
OS grid reference
TM 353 813
Coordinates
52.37969, 1.45654
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Butterfly Hall is a house with a core dating from the mid-16th century and a later exterior dated 1878. It is two storeys high and features a timber frame encased in red brick, with some areas patterned in white and black bricks, topped with clay pantiles. The building has an internal chimney stack with a plain square red brick shaft and one end stack, and there are five cross windows on each floor.

An enclosed porch, built at the same time as the facade, has a high arched front made of patterned brickwork that conceals a flat roof, and it features a 20th-century plank door. The front displays patterns in black headers between the windows, including St. Andrew's crosses, and below the upper windows is a brick band of several courses patterned in white and black. The west gable has similar but larger black patterns, including the date 1878, while the east gable and back walls are made of plain red brick.

Inside, the layout follows a basic three-cell lobby-entrance form, with a significant amount of the timber frame still visible. The central two-bay ground-floor room has a very heavy chamfered main beam and exceptionally close joists, with the spaces between them being narrower than the width of the joists themselves. At the east end, the upper room has exposed studding and reversed bracing. The roof is inaccessible.

Local climate

Butterfly Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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