The Northern House and the Southern House at Hall Farm is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Farmhouse.
The Northern House and the Southern House at Hall Farm
- WRENN ID
- outer-nave-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Northern House and the Southern House at Hall Farm, Thetford Road, Fakenham Magna
- OS grid reference
- TL 910 766
- Coordinates
- 52.35505, 0.8039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Northern House and The Southern House at Hall Farm is a former farmhouse, now divided into two dwellings, dating from the mid-19th century, with an older core in part. The building has two storeys and an L-shaped form, constructed of red brick with double Roman tiles and ornamental cresting along the ridge. The main range, aligned north-south, was added to an older house around 1850. It features a string course and blue header diaper-patterning on the upper storey. There are two internal chimney stacks with square shafts and corbelled heads set diamond-wise on rectangular bases. The building includes cross windows and one three-light mullion-and-transom window on each storey, all with rectangular hood moulds. The east-west cross wing at the south end has a timber-framed core encased in brick, with the west gable end bricked up to the eaves' level and rendered above. There is an irregular arrangement of late 20th-century replacement windows, along with a range of small-paned sash windows on the return front. The former main entry, located in the angle between the two ranges and now serving only the northern house, features a three-sided, single-storey porch with a flat roof and crenellated parapet.
Local climate
The Northern House and the Southern House at Hall Farm 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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