Dial Farmhouse`

Dial Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from around 1530 to 1550. It has a three-cell plan with a lobby entrance and stands two storeys high. The building is timber-framed and pebble-dashed, topped with a pantiled roof that was once thatched. It features an axial 16th-century chimney made of narrow pink and buff bricks. The windows are mid-20th century casements with transoms, while the entrance door, dating from the early 19th century, has six fielded panels, with the upper pair being glazed.

A notable feature is the fine timber-framed entrance porch, believed to have been brought from a house in Mendlesham and dating from around 1500. The porch is open and supported by heavy oak posts at both the front and rear, with a plaintiled roof. The rear tie beam of the porch is moulded and embattled, while the front tie beam displays vinescroll carving with a carved animal, possibly a deer, at the center and a frieze of Tudor flowers below. The porch's four-centred arched doorway is adorned with small spandrels enriched with roses.

Inside the house, good quality framing is visible throughout, featuring close-studding with reversed arch windbracing and a blocked window with cavetto-moulded mullions. In the hall, there is a double-ogee moulded binding beam and roll- and cavetto-moulded joists. The roof is supported by coupled rafters. A very wide open fireplace with a deep lintel serves the hall and is likely inserted into the original cross entry. At the rear of the property, there is a wing built around 1570, which has plainer framing and a wind-braced clasped purlin roof.