Stonewall Farmhouse

Stonewall Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1500, designed as a 3-cell Wealden open-hall house. It has two storeys and attics, and is constructed from timber framing with plaster infill. The recessed hall features two jettied cross-wings that share a single roof. The close-studding is fully exposed, although supporting brackets at the eaves have survived while those beneath the jetties have been removed. Unusually for Wealden houses in Suffolk, the rear wall of the hall is also recessed. The roofs are covered with plaintiles, including a lower cross-wing to the left.

There are two axial chimneys from around 1600: one made of red brick with a sawtooth shaft and another with a square shaft located at the rear of the cross-wing. The windows are small-pane casements from the 18th or early 19th century, featuring transoms. A 19th-century gabled entrance porch with a six-panelled door is positioned at the cross-entry.

Inside, the central open hall showcases an open truss with a cambered tie-beam supported by hollow-chamfered archbraces, one of which is missing. This structure rises from polygonal shafts with moulded capitals. Above, there is a long octagonal crownpost with a moulded capital and four-way braces. The roof exhibits moderate smoke encrustation, which is also present in the roof over the parlour cell, likely from a separate hearth. The fine close-studding includes arch and tension windbracing. A blocked rear cross-entry doorway features a 4-centred arch.

Around 1600, an upper floor and attics were added, along with a chimney in the cross-entry. A bakehouse or dairy cross-wing was also added to the left end around this time, featuring a wind-braced clasped purlin roof. This wing incorporates many major components from an open hall house dating to around 1400, suggesting it may have been remodelled on-site. The medieval elements include part of an open truss, diamond mullioned windows, and arch windbraced studding.