Clay Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Clay Hall
- WRENN ID
- tall-hammer-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Clay Hall, Darmsden
- OS grid reference
- TM 090 523
- Coordinates
- 52.13031, 1.05268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clay Hall is a farmhouse dating from the mid 16th century, featuring a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan. The building has one storey and attics, constructed from timber framing and pebble-dash, with a pantiled roof that was formerly thatched. It includes a red brick axial chimney, 19th-century small-pane casements, and a gabled wooden entrance porch. The house has seen little alteration aside from the removal of the open truss over the hall chamber. Inside, there are very heavy unchamfered floor joists and other exposed framing. The hall and former parlour, which has been converted into a kitchen/bakehouse by the 19th century, feature back-to-back open fireplaces.
Local climate
Clay 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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