Plumton Hall

Plumton Hall is a house dating from the early 18th century, with the possibility of an earlier core. It was altered and extended in the early 19th century and around 1914. The building has two storeys, with a central block that includes a hall range and two cross-wings. It is timber-framed and rendered, featuring plaintiled roofs with coved plaster cornices, while the roofs of the cross-wings are hipped. The axial chimneys are made of gault and red brick. The windows are mainly early 18th century cruciform casements, with some early 19th century casements present.

There is a 20th-century hipped plaintiled entrance porch with a battened and boarded door. To the left of the main structure is an 18th-century two-storey pavilion with a pyramid roof, connected to a one-storey kitchen. A matching pavilion on the right side was demolished around 1914 to make way for a large extension built of red brick and plaintiles. Inside, the east wing parlour features complete late 18th-century joinery in the Gothick style, including a fireplace with a carved Gothick overmantel that displays the coat of arms and carved ornament of Sir Thomas Hammond. The entrance hall contains a 20th-century Tudor style fireplace that incorporates a fine oak arcaded overmantel from around 1600, with the walls fully panelled in contemporary wainscotting. The library, added around 1914, features a fine reset oak overmantel with carved figures from the same period. The house has a historical connection to a moated site that was once an orchard farm for St. Edmunds Abbey, as noted in Gage's "History of Thingoe Hundred" from 1838.