Bressingham Hall Farm, Diss

We advised on the potential for the adaptation of farm buildings around Bressingham Hall, a Grade 2 listed Georgian style mansion house, built in 1780. The adjacent Farm is a complex of residential and agricultural buildings sited within open countryside to the west of the market town, Diss. The farm is no longer operational and the site is dominated by a number of vacant modern utilitarian agricultural buildings as well as a historic granary building. A heritage assessment illustrated to the Council how a scheme for a new ‘wedding venue’ could be sympathetic to existing character and appearance of the listed building, setting and wider landscape. The case was made to the Local authority that the significance of the historic barn and the listed Hall building would not be harmed through replacement and select new-build and conversion of other ancillary farm buildings.