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The 16th century
exterior of the Grade 1 listed farmhouse hides a medieval first
floor hall where the Bishop of Norwich held court and entertained.
Many features survive, including probably the earliest domestic
wall paintings in Suffolk. The moated enclosure
(above), which may be older than the Hall, also contains
a ruined gatehouse from the medieval establishment of the Bishop
of Norwich.
The Hall and gardens are open for guided tours on Thursdays, some
Sundays and on Bank Holidays from 1st May - 30th September. Paths
A and C lead from the car park next to Bateman's Barn Visitors Centre
and Cafe (above) via the Groves
old oak, ash and beech trees, to the footbridge across the moat.
Here you may see sedge warblers as well as mallard ducks and you
are likely to hear the green or greater spotted woodpeckers. In
the evening noctule bats that roos in the beech trees come out to
hunt in the Grove
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