St Jacob's Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
St Jacob's Hall
- WRENN ID
- waiting-chalk-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- St Jacob's Hall, Laxfield, IP13 8HY
- OS grid reference
- TM 306 713
- Coordinates
- 52.29148, 1.38069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St. Jacob's Hall is a farmhouse that dates mainly from the 15th and 16th centuries, with significant later alterations. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior under a pantiled roof, standing two storeys high with an attic. The building has four windows, which are 18th and 19th century mullion and transom casements. There are two 19th century doorways; the one on the right is adorned with fluted pilasters, enriched capitals featuring a flower motif, and a pediment with a roundel depicting an animal. The left doorway is similar but has plain pilasters and lions' heads as decorative elements. Both doorways lead to six-panel doors.
Internally, there is an internal stack and a gable stack to the right, both topped with 19th century dentilled caps. Part of the rear wall reveals medieval framing, with two secondary mullioned windows; the eaves were raised at a later date. To the left, there are two bays of a former cross-wing that originally extended further back. This section displays heavy framing with reversed bracing on the rear wall, cranked braces on the tie beams, and indications of a diamond-mullioned window, suggesting that the cross-wing predates the adjoining medieval range.
Inside, the hall features a mutilated embattled bridging beam, and the fireplace lintel at the service end is inscribed with 'N. JACOB'. The parlour chamber retains small remnants of an ornamental plaster ceiling dating to around 1600 and has complete oak panelling, likely from the 19th century. There is also some reused 17th century panelling in the hall chamber. The roof appears to have been renewed, possibly in the late 18th century. A fireplace that once separated the hall and parlour was removed in the 19th century and replaced by a staircase.
Local climate
St Jacob's Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
- 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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