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Roos Hall is an Elizabethan brick manor house west of Beccles, on the Bungay road in north-east Suffolk, on the edge of the Broads. It is a late 16th-century gentry residence rather than a fortified castle, and has been listed at the highest level of protection (Grade I) since 1948.
The house was built for Thomas Colby, whose initials appear on the building; its completion is generally placed around 1593, the year of his death. Around 1600 the estate was acquired by Sir John Suckling, and the list entry notes that the property had returned to the head of that family, who lived there.
The building, of three storeys plus attics, is a fine example of late Tudor brick architecture: an embattled parapet, crow-stepped gables, octagonal corner buttresses topped by moulded pinnacles, brick mullion-and-transom windows crowned by pediments, a Tudor-arched doorway and octagonal chimneys. Inside survive oak staircases, original panelling and contemporary stone fireplaces. It remains a private residence.