Sweffling Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Sweffling Hall
- WRENN ID
- inner-dormer-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sweffling Hall, Swefling, IP17 2BT
- OS grid reference
- TM 337 645
- Coordinates
- 52.22957, 1.42079
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sweffling Hall is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with an extension to the left of the cross wing, likely added in the 19th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, with the facade designed to resemble ashlar. There is some later colourwashed brick casing at the newer end. The roof is tiled with plain tiles at the front and pantiles at the rear. The structure has two storeys and an attic in the later section, featuring five windows that include 19th and mid-20th century casements.
The older part of the farmhouse has two doorways: on the right side, there is a lobby entrance with a mid-20th century panelled door set in a gabled porch that has wavy bargeboards and a spike finial; on the left side, there is a four-panel door, with the upper two panels glazed. To the left side, there are also two pairs of mid-20th century garage doors. Inside, there are two internal stacks, and the interior has been significantly altered in the 19th century, although there are good exposed joists in one of the ground floor rooms.
Local climate
Sweffling Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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