Bulls Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. A Tudor Farmhouse.
Bulls Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-minaret-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Tudor
- Address
- Bulls Hall Farmhouse, Long Green, Bedfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 218 671
- Coordinates
- 52.25809, 1.24937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bulls Hall Farmhouse is a late 16th-century farmhouse that features a three-cell layout with a 17th-century dairy cell to the left, creating a single long range. The building has undergone some alterations in the 19th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with the gables displaying exposed timbers that date from the 19th or 20th century. The roof is covered with concrete plain tiles and is not steeply pitched. The farmhouse has two storeys and an attic, with various types of windows.
On the ground floor, there are four mid-20th-century standard small-paned casements, and to the left, two 19th-century three-light casements. The first floor features three 19th-century sash windows with glazing bars. The entrance is a lobby with a 19th-century plastered gabled porch topped with a spike finial; the door is double-leaved, three-quarters glazed, with margin glazing bars. Inside, there is an internal stack with a 19th-century white brick shaft, and the former dairy has a slatted gable end window.
At the rear, there is a one-storey lean-to made of colourwashed brick with a slated roof. The interior has been Victorianized, with a hall that has a chamfered-joist ceiling and plain joists at the service end. The main components of the frame are visible on the upper floor, including a cambered tie beam over the hall chamber and a 19th-century straight stair. The dairy addition features on-edge joists, and the alignment of one jowled post suggests it may have originally been part of a cross-wing. The roof has not been examined but is almost certainly a 19th-century replacement.
Local climate
Bulls Hall Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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