Hall Farm House 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.

Hall Farm House

WRENN ID
swift-ashlar-harvest
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
Hall Farm House, the Common, Mellis, IP23 8EF
OS grid reference
TM 091 741
Coordinates
52.32576, 1.06759
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hall Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 16th century, with extensions from the 17th century and alterations and further extensions in the 19th century. It is constructed of timber frame and plastered, featuring steeply pitched pantiled roofs. The building is L-shaped in plan, comprising two broad cells with a cross passage, a hall, and a parlour, along with a service wing at the rear. It stands two storeys high with an attic and may have originally had a jettied front.

The central entrance features a six-panelled door within a doorcase that has fluted pilasters and roundels supporting an open pediment. The parlour on the left has a three-light window on the ground floor and a two-light window on the first floor, both with glazing bars, while the hall to the right has three and four-light glazing bar casements, all of which are 19th-century additions with hoodboards. The eaves are boxed. The left gable end has a three-light casement on the first floor and a small casement in the attic beneath a pentice board, with exposed plates and purlins. The right gable end features an external stack in a 19th-century one-storey, one-bay addition that includes an entrance towards the main range, a six-panelled door in an open porch with fluted jambs, a pedimental head, and an architraved four-light glazing bar casement beneath a hipped roof.

At the rear, the main range has a recessed boarded door opposite the front door, along with two and three-light casements and an inserted stack in the parlour on the rear roof slope. The service wing extends to the rear right, with a lower ridge and eaves, a multiform ridge stack towards the front, an inner boarded door, and three-light 19th-century casements, as well as an outer half-glazed door and scattered casements. The rear gable end also displays exposed plates and purlins. Inside, the hall features a double roll moulded axial binding beam, the parlour has wave moulded joists, and the service wing contains stop-chamfered binding beams, although the frame is mostly concealed and not inspected, with reports of some panelling. The property is situated on a moated site.

Local climate

Hall Farm House 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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