Listed Building: BARN 80 METRES SOUTH WEST OF RINGSHALL HALL (279941)

RINGSHALL STOWMARKET ROAD TM 05 SW 5/166 Barn, 80m south-west of Ringshall Hall 9.12.55 - II shall be upgraded to Grade II* (star) and the description shall be amended to read: Possibly originally a manorial court hall, converted into a barn, again being converted (1993) into a house. Circa later C16, converted circa C18 and 1993. Weatherboarded and plastered timber frame and brick plinth. Roman pantile roof with gabled ends, hipped over midstrey and corrugated sheet steel over outshuts. Plan: 7 bays. The centre 3 bays open to the roof, the 2 bay ends originally floored with chambers over; the W end 2 bays are wider. The floors removed and a midstrey built on the S front to east of centre probably in C18. Later outshuts on the S side. Exterior: Single storey (1993). N front: Weatherboarded on right, plastered and weatherboarded on left and with large cart entrance to left of centre with plank double doors. S elevation, plastered and on left weatherboarded, weatherboarded hipped roof midstrey to right of centre and outshuts to left and right. Interior: Open to roof and with no partitions (1993). Timber frame is largely intact. Wall-posts, sole and wall-plates, midrail and close- studding with some tension braces. Curved braces to tie-beams, 2 tiers of side purlins, tenoned (butt) lower purlins and upper purlins with curved wind-braces and clasped above the collars; later ridge purlin. Several diamond mullion windows rebated for glass including large first floor windows in bays 1 and 2 at east end. No part of the roof is smoke-blackened. Note: The manor of Ringshall was inherited by Sir Thomas Gresham from his mother, widow of Sir Richard Gresham and it is thought that Sir Thomas might have built this building. RINGSHALL STOWMARKET ROAD TM 05 SW 5/166 Barn, 80m south-west of Ringshall Hall 9.12.55 - II Barn, late C16. 7 bays. Timber-framed, mainly with C19 and C20 weatherboarding, but with some late C18 plaster at upper levels. Original plinth of narrow red bricks, now mainly tarred. Roman pantiled roof, formerly thatched. An C18 porch on south side, 3rd bay from east: hipped roof and a pair of boarded barn doors; in the north wall opposite is a pair of larger doors. A well-built barn, with arch-windbraced close studding and wind-braced clasped purlin roof. Bays one and two at the east end have large original windows at upper level and in gable, with chamfered diamond mullions (blocked); this was possibly designed as a garret/hayloft above a stable, and integrated with the barn in C18/C19. Listing NGR: TM0427952736