Shannon Gates and Crinkle Crankle Wall at Broke Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 2024. Wall, gates. 3 related planning applications.
Shannon Gates and Crinkle Crankle Wall at Broke Hall
- WRENN ID
- under-doorway-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 2024
- Type
- Wall, gates
- Address
- Shannon Gates and Crinkle Crankle Wall at Broke Hall, The Stables, Broke Hall Park, Nacton, Ipswich, IP10 0ET
- OS grid reference
- TM 225 391
- Coordinates
- 52.00644, 1.2407
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shannon Gates and Crinkle Crankle Wall form part of the north-eastern boundary of the walled garden at Broke Hall. The brick wall was built between 1792 and 1838, and the gates were constructed in 1859 using oak timbers reputedly salvaged from the HMS Shannon.
The wall is constructed of handmade red bricks laid in a monk bond pattern, and follows a crinkle-crankle form with seven undulating bays extending from the north to the east corners of the garden. The wall is lower at its eastern end, where some localised repairs are visible.
The Shannon Gates are located in the western part of the wall, where the brickwork slopes downwards to meet the gate posts. The gates are made of oak and consist of two large carriage gates flanked by smaller pedestrian gates. Four gate posts feature corner buttress details and octagonal caps. The pedestrian gates have six panels each, filled with decorative boards and topped with three fleur de lys finials. The larger carriage gates have two diagonally boarded panels at their base and two upper panels of scrolling neo-Jacobean fretwork, surmounted by scrolling openwork. The gates are secured by iron straps.
Local climate
Shannon Gates and Crinkle Crankle Wall at Broke 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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