Farmstead record BAY 043 - Farmstead: Baylham Hall

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Summary

Baylham Hall, Baylham. 18th century farmstead and 17th century manor farmhouse. Regular courtyard E-shaped plan formed by working agricultural buildings with additional detached elements. The farmhouse is set away from the yard. The farmstead is extant. Located within an isolated position.

Location

Grid reference Centred TM 0922 5169 (233m by 194m)
Map sheet TM05SE
Civil Parish BAYLHAM, MID SUFFOLK, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (7)

Full Description

Agricultural buildings in the grounds of Baylham Hall, a 17th C brick manor house with mullioned windows and a newell staircase. This includes a 16th C stable with a brick lower storey and a timber-framed and weatherboarded upper storey. This building has 10 bays and a complete crownpost roof. Mullioned windows on the first floor indicate that there was an area of accommodation above these stables. Also present is an 18th C timber-framed and weatherboarded barn on a brick plinth. This has a good quality timber frame and clasped purlin roof, which appear to have been constructed re-using timbers from a 16th C building (S1).

Baylham Hall, Baylham. 18th century farmstead and 17th century manor farmhouse. Regular courtyard E-shaped plan formed by working agricultural buildings with additional detached elements. Unusually it is a double E plan with three ranges extending off both sides of the central barn. The farmhouse is set away from the yard. The farmstead is extant. Located within an isolated position (S2-3).

Recorded as part of the Farmsteads in the Suffolk Countryside Project. This is a purely desk-based study and no site visits were undertaken. These records are not intended to be a definitive assessment of these buildings. Dating reflects their presence at a point in time on historic maps and there is potential for earlier origins to buildings and farmsteads. This project highlights a potential need for a more in depth field study of farmstead to gather more specific age data.

Sources/Archives (7)

  • <S1> Unpublished document: Aitkens, P and Wade-Martins, S.. 1998. The Farmsteads of Suffolk. A Thematic Study.
  • <S2> Unpublished document: Campbell, G., and McSorley, G. 2019. SCCAS: Farmsteads in the Suffolk Countryside Project.
  • <S3> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1880s. Ordnance Survey 25 inch to 1 mile map, 1st edition.
  • <S4> Map: Ordnance Survey. c 1904. Ordnance Survey 25 inch to 1 mile map, 2nd edition. 25".
  • <S5> Vertical Aerial Photograph: various. Google Earth / Bing Maps.
  • <S6> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1949. Ordnance Survey 6 inch to 1, mile, 3rd edition. 1:10,560.
  • <S7> Map: 1841. Baylham Tithe Map.

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Record last edited

Dec 5 2019 1:28PM

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