ABSTRACT
Suffolk is famous for the number and quality of its medieval or open-hall houses. Of the 116 houses in the sample that can be classified with any accuracy, 40 fall into this category, that is, houses with one or more rooms open to the roof. This room is invariably the hall; the hall is always the central room of two or three. Such open-hall houses survive, usually heavily altered and converted into modern dwellings, in their thousands across England and Wales. Their distribution, however, is strongly clustered. One of the strongest concentrations is found in wood-pasture Suffolk.
