Old Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. Farmhouse, former manor house.
Old Hall
- WRENN ID
- second-basalt-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse, former manor house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Hall is a farmhouse that was once a manor house, dating from the late 16th century with some remodelling in the 19th century. It has two storeys and attics, built on a three-cell plan. Originally, the 16th-century walls featured exposed close-studding with herringbone brick nogging, but the first storey is now plastered, and the lower part is underbuilt in 19th-century red brick, which is now painted. The rear has seen significant encasing and rebuilding in 19th-century brick.
The right-hand gable is made of 16th-century red brick with a diaper pattern created using burnt headers and features a crowstepped parapet gable. It includes a large chimney with three diagonally-set square flues, although the upper part has been rebuilt in the 20th century. On either side of the chimney, there are garderobes on both storeys, also in brick, with small splayed oblong windows that have since been blocked or altered. A large external 16th-century chimney serving the hall displays diaper patterning, though its square shaft has been largely rebuilt. Adjacent to this chimney is an original or nearly original staircase tower featuring a newel staircase that extends through three storeys, also constructed of brick with diaper work.
To the left, there is a 19th-century parapet gable made of red brick with crowstepping. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The mid-19th-century ground storey windows have segmental heads and consist of casements with transoms, while the first storey features 18th-century or early 19th-century casements. A single-storey entrance porch from the mid-19th century, also with a plaintiled roof and crowstepped parapet gable, includes a six-panelled door. Inside, the first storey rooms reveal closely spaced studwork with exposed tension stud-bracing, and one chamber contains an unusually late example of a diamond-mullioned window with four lights. The joists on the first and second floors are set on edge and may have been plastered from the beginning. The building has a butt purlin roof, and there is a 19th-century service wing at the rear on the right.
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