Frog Hall is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. A Medieval House. 1 related planning application.
Frog Hall
- WRENN ID
- rooted-footing-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Frog Hall, Colethorpe Lane, Barrow
- OS grid reference
- TL 757 641
- Coordinates
- 52.24709, 0.57247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Frog Hall is a house dating from the early 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th and 17th centuries. It features a two-bay open hall with a jettied service cross-wing and a 17th-century cross-wing at the upper end. The entry is through a cross-passage. The hall is now 1½ storeys high with attics, while the wings are two storeys. The building is timber-framed, rendered, and has a clay plain-tiled roof with gabled casement dormers. There is an axial chimney in the hall range made of 16th-century red brick. The windows are 19th-century casements, and there is a panelled entrance door.
Inside, the hall has an open truss that is damaged, featuring a cambered tie-beam, massive arch-braces, and a crown-post that are now missing. The hall has polygonal hewn pilasters at the storey posts. The former crown-post roofs of the hall and service wing now have 16th-century clasped purlins. The cross-wing was extended to the rear in the 17th century. There is a 16th-century open fireplace in the hall with three square recesses above an oak lintel. The 17th-century upper end cross-wing has moulded first-floor joists that were reused from a 16th-century structure.
Local climate
Frog 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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