Farmstead record CAV 090 - Farmstead: Blacklands

Blacklands is a farmstead visible on the 1st Ed Os map. The farmstead is laid out in a regular multi yard with U-plan, L-plan, and full plan elements. The farmhouse is attached to the agricultural range. The farmstead sits alongside a public road in an isolated location. There has been a significant loss of working buildings with the remaining converted for residential use. (S1-4)

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.

Taken from NRHE record:
Blacklands Hall moat is a long curved channel, graduating from 20 ft wide at the north east and to 60 ft at the south west.

The remains of this moat consist of a long narrow arm extending in a north east to south west direction, with the south west end considerably widened for use as a duckpond. There are further
remains, dry and overgrown, at TL 81104704 and the whole is in fair condition.

Blacklands; a 16th century timber-framed building, restored in 1850.

Blacklands Hall, name confirmed, has been extensively restored. All that remains of the moat which surrounded the hall is the NW arm, filled by a stream at the N angle, which is 180m long and 10m wide; the west angles, enlarged to form a pond; and a small portion of the NE arm, 40m long, 10m wide and 2m deep, which is now dry.

No evidence of a causeway can be seen on the surviving arms.
Published 1:2500 survey revised.