Building record BMF 030 - Brook Hall Farm, Bramfield

Grade II-listed farmhouse and surrounding historic buildings, which include a seventeenth-century Suffolk threshing barn, nineteenth-century southern barn extensions, a nineteenth-century bungalow and workshop range, and a nineteenth-century structure. It has been suggested that and Elizabethan Brick Manor house stood on the site of Brook Hall farm.

Brook Hall Farmhouse is an L-shaped range, orientated on a north-west/southeast axis. At its core, the house is an eighteenth-century timber-framed construction, but much of this has been refaced in the nineteenth century in white-painted red brickwork. There is a single-storey painted brick nineteenth-century extension to the service range.

The large Suffolk threshing barn lies to the north-west of the main farmhouse. Externally, the barn is clad in tarred weatherboarding which mainly comprises modern timbers, but there are a number of areas where wider and more weathered earlier boards are used. This perhaps suggests that some of these boards are timbers reused from elsewhere, as the use of weatherboarding is a nineteenth-century phenomenon, which seems to post-date the width and depth of the boards in situ here. It also indicates that the barn has been repaired in a piecemeal fashion. The barn is roofed in twentieth-century corrugated iron. Internally, the barn comprises a very complete seventeenth-century open timberframed arch-braced tie-beam structure, set on a red-brick plinth which appears to be contemporaneous with the timber framing. Some adaptation is evident to the west, as well as to the south where the opening has been adapted to incorporate the nineteenth-century southern extensions and twentieth-century infill (S1).