Old Hall is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. House.
Old Hall
- WRENN ID
- white-pewter-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Hall, Thetford Road, Barningham
- OS grid reference
- TL 965 773
- Coordinates
- 52.3587, 0.88455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Hall is a house dating from the early 17th century. It stands three storeys tall and features a timber-framed and rendered structure. The roof is of two spans, with the western half covered in plain tiles and the eastern half in pantiles. On the east wall, there are two identical external chimney stacks made of Tudor brick, which have stepped sides and rebuilt shafts, and may incorporate garderobes on the upper storey.
Along the east side, there is a single-storey lean-to addition that is rendered and has a pantiled roof, enclosing the bases of the chimney stacks. The building has ovolo-moulded cross windows on both the ground and first storeys, and ovolo-moulded mullioned windows on the second storey. Inside, some original panelling remains. This high-quality structure may have been intended as a hunting lodge. It is believed to be a remnant of a larger house built by the Barrow family, the last of whom, Maurice Barrow, died in 1666, although there is no structural evidence to support this claim, and the current building appears complete in itself.
Local climate
Old Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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