Old Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Old Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- broken-loft-swallow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Hall Farmhouse, Main Road, Hemingstone, IP6 9RJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 152 530
- Coordinates
- 52.13417, 1.1436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, said to be from 1602 but possibly around 1630. It underwent remodelling in the 18th century and has a rear extension from around 1970. The building is two storeys with attics and has a half H plan, featuring a centre range with an unusually narrow single window. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with plaintiled roofs, and both cross-wings have hipped roofs, which may be an 18th-century alteration.
At the rear of the right-hand wing, there is an original red brick chimney with three detached square shafts, while the left-hand wing has a matching chimney with a rebuilt shaft. A notable original dormer window on the rear roof slope has ovolo-moulded mullions. The late 18th-century casements include transoms and hinged boarded external shutters at the ground level. The central entrance doorway, added around 1970, is designed in the mid-18th-century style, featuring a six-panelled door with an architrave and pediment.
Inside, the narrow centre range contains a fine early 17th-century dogleg staircase with carved and pierced newel finials and widely spaced turned balusters. An ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed window provides light to the staircase. The parlour features moulded plaster cornices, and a pair of fitted oak cupboards flanking the window creates a bay. The chamber above mirrors this arrangement, with cupboards set in wainscotting. In the kitchen wing to the right, there is a large segmental-arched fireplace and cable-pattern plaster on the ceiling beams, along with slender close-studding. The house also boasts many minor items of joinery and ironmongery that enhance its character.
Local climate
Old Hall Farmhouse 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 — 4 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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