Great Blakenham Hall

Great Blakenham Hall is a house dating from the mid or late 16th century, with alterations made in the mid 20th century. It features a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan and stands two storeys high. The building is timber-framed, with the upper floor jettied along the front wall on brackets. The ground storey walls are encased in brickwork, while the upper walls are plastered and finished with a stippled coating. The roof is plaintiled, hipped with gablets, and there is an axial chimney of red brick from the 16th or 17th century located between the hall and parlour, along with a 19th-century external chimney at the service end on the right. The windows are small-pane casements dating from around 1980. A 20th-century gabled entrance porch, also plaintiled, has a boarded and battened inner door. Inside, substantial close-studwork and floor joists are exposed, and there are back-to-back fireplaces in the hall and parlour.