Blood Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. Farmhouse.
Blood Hall
- WRENN ID
- turning-hinge-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Blood Hall, Kenton
- OS grid reference
- TM 183 647
- Coordinates
- 52.2378, 1.19706
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blood Hall is a former farmhouse that has been converted into two cottages. It dates from the early 17th century and has two later additions. The building is timber framed and plastered, with the right gable end covered in weatherboarding up to the eaves. It features a pantiled roof and is designed in a three-cell, lobby entry style, standing two storeys tall with an attic.
The facade includes three windows, primarily mid-20th century standard casements without glazing bars, along with two older three-light windows on the first floor, each having a single horizontal glazing bar in each light. There are also two mid-20th century entrance doors. Inside, there is an internal stack with a rebuilt axial shaft. To the left of the main structure is a one-and-a-half-storey addition, possibly from around 1700, which has a mid-20th century standard casement window and a gable stack. Additionally, there is a two-storey rear addition from the later 17th century.
The interior features exposed framing on the upper floor, with mortices for diamond mullions visible in the former gable end where the later wing connects. The hall contains slightly chamfered joists, while the service end has plain joists set flat. The joists in the parlour are concealed, and the first-floor ceilings also have plain joists. A newel stair leads to the attic, which retains an old entrance door. The roof structure includes clasped purlins.
Local climate
Blood Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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