Docking Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Docking Hall

WRENN ID
peeling-keep-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 October 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Docking Hall, Christmas Lane, Metfield
OS grid reference
TM 311 805
Coordinates
52.37395, 1.39501
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Docking Hall is a farmhouse mainly dating from the 16th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and has a black pantiled roof, which includes glazed tiles on the south side. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a main range that includes a parlour cross-wing to the west. This cross-wing, which was originally jettied to the south, seems to be a slightly later addition. There are various 19th and 20th century casement windows throughout the structure. Inside, there is an internal stack in the main range. To the east of the main range, there is an attached service range that is one and a half storeys high, featuring one raking dormer and a boarded half-door.

Local climate

Docking Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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