Bacon's Barn
BACON'S BARN
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198357
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bacon's Barn
- Statutory Address:
- BACON'S BARN
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2007-06-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/16733/11
- Rights:
- © Mr John Giles. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198357
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bacon's Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- BACON'S BARN
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BACON'S BARN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Michael, South Elmham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 34360 83586
Details
SOUTH ELMHAM, ST. MICHAEL ST. MICHAEL'S GREEN TM 38 SW
4/80 Bacon's Barn -
GV II
Former farmhouse. Part C15, part circa 1600. Timber-framed and rendered, with part of the outer walls replaced in colour-washed brick; thatched roof to part, half-hipped at the west end; the remainder with black glazed and clay pantiles. 1½ storeys to the older western half of the building, 2 storeys and attics to the remainder, the 2 halves linked by an internal chimney-stack with a plain shaft of small red Tudor bricks. 2 gabled dormers; C20 casements, and 3-light casements with a single bar to lights in the c,1600 part. On the garden front, part of the original hall window is reinstated, and one old casement window has diamond-leaded panes. C20 plank door abutting on the chimney stack. The western half of the house contains the remains of a 2-bay open hall with crown-post roof. The crown-post is octagonal with moulded cap, braced 4 ways at the head, but the base has been cut off, the supporting tie- beam removed, and a later queen-post structure inserted bellow, producing an attenuated secondary form of raised aisle truss. Some of the queen-post components are smoke-blackened and apparently reused. At the west end of the hall, the timber-framed partition has been replaced by a wall of Tudor brick, laid in English bond, and the bay beyond it is a late C17 reconstruction. The inserted ceiling in the hall is plain and heavy, with exposed main beam and joists. The added 2-bay parlour block on the east is very well timbered, with close studding and exposed ceilings on each floor; main beams with curved stops and bar; plain timber lintel to the hearth; remains of mullioned window openings. Roof with clasped side purlins, arched windbraces and intermediate collars between the trusses. It seems likely that the inserted stack was preceded by a smoke bay. This is the only house in the South Elmham parishes with the remains of a crown-post roof.
Listing NGR: TM3436083586
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282340
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 02-Jul-2026 at 17:40:37.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.