Listed Building: BULLS HALL AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS (279611)

YAXLEY IPSWICH ROAD (WEST SIDE) TM 17 SW 3/153 Bull's Hall and attached - outbuilding - II House, latterly 2 dwellings. c.1530-40, altered C19 and early C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched pantiled and thatched roof. 7 bay, 3 cell cross passage plan. 2 storeys. Recessed boarded door in cross passage position to left of centre. 3 light C19 glazing bar casements, ground floor hoodboards. Sprocket eaves. Service bay to left has thatch and an early C20 brick, slate roofed lean-to outshut to front. Axial ridge stack between hall and parlour to right of centre has raised brick capping. Right or parlour gable end is jettied on curved brackets, ground floor 4-light and first floor 3-light casements, curved brackets to exposed plates, pentice board, exposed purlins. Left gable end pentice board, exposed plates and purlins. To rear a C19 lobby entrance between hall and parlour with a 6 panelled part glazed door and a tiled gabled hood, 2 and 3-light C19 casements. Interior: very close studding to frame of large scantling, ground floor; 4-centred arched door heads to front of cross passage and into buttery and pantry which have 3 and 4-light diamond mullioned window openings, original stair in pantry, hall has very large 6 and 7-light diamond mullioned window openings, stop chamfered mid-rails, storey posts, door surrounds and cross axial binding beam. Parlour also has very large original window openings, stop chamfered cross axial binding beam. C19 stair inserted next to stack with 3 reused barley sugar balusters. First floor: reverse curved and cranked arched braces halved over studding, original large window openings, 5 lights on original staircase retaining some early diamond glazing, chamfered arched braces from jowled posts to cambered tie beams, cranked in open trusses, reverse cranked in closed trusses. Queen strut roof with cranked collars clasping purlins with halved principals, cranked windbraces. Attached to left or service end is a low C20 link to a granary, originally probably a detached unit house or dairy: C16 timber frame, plastered, steeply pitched corrugated sheet roof. 2 bays. 2 storeys. Ground floor largely rebuilt in C19 red brick. To front doors on both storeys, exposed plates and purlins, left return lean-to outshut, 5-light diamond mullioned window, to rear an upper hatch opening, pentice boards, exposed plates and purlins. Interior: ground floor crossed stop chamfered binding beams, chamfered joists, fairly close studding, some re-used timber and repair, arched braces in walling, clasped purlin roof. (Suffolk Archaeology, vol XVI, 1916, pt.1) Listing NGR: TM1172173067