Barn 200 Metres West Of Halls Farmhouse

This barn, located 200 meters west of Hall's Farmhouse, dates from the mid-16th century and features six bays. It is constructed from timber framing and weatherboarding, with some areas of wattle and daub underneath. The roof, originally thatched, is now covered with corrugated asbestos and has half-hipped ends with gables. On the west side, there are sets of four boarded barn doors at bays two and five, while the opposite side has pairs of smaller stable-type doors.

Inside, the barn is noted for its exceptional craftsmanship and rare carpentry features. The studding is closely spaced, and there are tension braces in the gables and at the corners of the side walls. The half-hipped roof is supported by corner basecrucks, a feature typically found in some 16th-century houses in Mid-Suffolk, but not in barns. The open trusses each have two pairs of thick archbraces, a rarity in Suffolk, with three out of ten sets missing. Each bay has middle rails subdivided by an unjowled storey post. The barn also features archbraced collarbeam trusses at half-bay intervals, with heavy principal rafters supported by raking queen-struts from tiebeams. There are two tiers of butt purlins with thick windbraces at both levels. A ridge piece, which is triangular in section and a rare feature for West Suffolk, is clasped by the principal rafters.

The barn previously had large doorways on the east side, which were infilled in the 18th century, and the eastern doorways were enlarged during that time. The floor is made of complete 18th/19th-century brick.