Wolfe Hall is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. House.
Wolfe Hall
- WRENN ID
- sheer-sentry-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wolfe Hall, Barrow Hill
- OS grid reference
- TL 771 622
- Coordinates
- 52.22958, 0.59205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wolfe Hall is a house from the early 16th century, with later extensions from the same century. It has a T-plan layout and features a lobby entrance. The building consists of two floors and attics, constructed with timber framing and rendered exterior. The upper floor at the rear and the attic floor of the cross-wing both have long jetties. The roof is covered with plaintiles and has an axial chimney with three attached elongated hexagon flues. The windows are 20th-century casements.
There is a single-storey gabled entrance porch from the 19th century, which has an arched and hood-moulded boarded entrance door. The main range includes a hall and a parlour, with chambers above. The timber framing is of high quality, featuring wind-braced close-studded walling and part of a plank and muntin cross-passage screen. The roof is a wind-braced clasped-purlin type, and the windows have roll-moulded mullions that are exposed internally.
Inside, there are large open fireplaces with cambered lintels set on re-used medieval roll-moulded limestone jambs in both the hall and parlour. The service end cross-wing dates to around 1580 and has windows with ovolo-moulded mullions exposed internally, as well as three-centred arched doorways on the first and attic floors.
Local climate
Wolfe 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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