Bacton Hall with Garden Wall Attached to South West Corner is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. Farmhouse.
Bacton Hall with Garden Wall Attached to South West Corner
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-garret-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- TM 029 655
- Coordinates
- 52.25095, 0.97199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bacton Hall, with a garden wall attached to its south-west corner, is a farmhouse that was originally a manor house, dating from around 1550, with alterations made in the 17th century and later. The building has two storeys and a three-cell plan, which originally featured a cross-entry. It is timber-framed with concealed brick nogging and has a red brick parapet gable at the south end, which was rebuilt in the 18th or 19th century. The north end has a brick gable likely from the 17th century with later modifications. In around 1930, the front elevation was encased in gault brick. The roof is covered with plain tiles, and there is a late 16th or early 17th century axial chimney made of red brick with a sawtooth shaft. The ground floor features mid-20th century small pane casements with segmental arched heads. There is also a C19 entrance and staircase porch made of gault brick with a slated lean-to roof and a half-glazed door.
At the rear, among later additions, is a gabled two-storey structure from the 16th century, likely a staircase tower, which is timber-framed and brick-nogged. It is believed that a high-quality staircase was removed from the house in the late 19th century. Inside, the hall contains good quality roll-moulded first-floor joists and double-ogee moulded beams, while the parlour has similar features with different mouldings. There are back-to-back lintelled open fireplaces and high-quality arch wind-braced close-studding. The attic at the parlour end is original and has good chamfered floor joists, while the other attics were added in the 17th century.
Additionally, there is a 10-meter length of 16th-century garden wall extending south-west from the south-west corner of the house. This wall is made of red brick with a diaper pattern of burnt headers, brick cappings, and two openings resembling splayed windows. There is also a partial medieval moat on the property.
Local climate
Bacton Hall with Garden Wall Attached to South West Corner sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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