The Ancient House is a

Grade II* listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...

house in

Peasenhall Peasenhall is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the English county of Suffolk. The population of the civil parish at the 2021 Census was 525. It lies on the A1120 tourist route; neighbouring villages include Sibton a ...

, Suffolk, England. The house is

timber-framed Timber framing () and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy Beam (structure), timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and Woodworking joints, joined timbers with joints secure ...

and dates from the mid-sixteenth century with an eighteenth-century facade. It was extensively altered in the late nineteenth century. It was in the ownership of the furniture expert R. W. Symonds at his death in 1958.Advertising: Strutt & Parker, Lofts & Warner, ''The Times'', 16 April 1959, p. 24.

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Grade II* listed buildings in Suffolk Grade II* listed houses Timber framed buildings in Suffolk {{Suffolk-struct-stub