Friars Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. A C15 House.
Friars Hall
- WRENN ID
- sacred-hearth-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1988
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Friar's Hall is a house dating from the 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and later. It is a three-cell structure featuring an open hall at the center, a 17th-century parlour cell to the right, and a service cell to the left. The building has one storey and attics, constructed from timber framing and plaster, topped with a thatched roof that is half-hipped at the left end.
An axial chimney from the early 17th century is made of red brick and has twin octagonal flues. The house includes three 20th-century eyebrow casement dormers and 20th-century casements with leaded lights. There is also a 20th-century gabled entrance porch with a boarded door. Inside, the open hall features a notable central truss with a cambered arch-braced tiebeam and an octagonal crownpost that has a moulded and embattled capital, supported by four-way braces. A blocked two-centred arched rear cross-entry doorway is present. In the early 17th century, a chimney was added in the cross-entry, which included back-to-back open fireplaces, and the original service cell was demolished and replaced by a parlour that features an ovolo-moulded binding beam.
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