Brandeston Priory is to the north of the village, on the road to
Earl Soham. It is a Grade II* farmhouse, dating back to 1586. "19th century Brandeston Hall stands beside the church; for many centuries, its predecessor on the site was home to the Revett family, but it is now a public school."
Brandeston Hall, the largest building in the village, is now the preparatory department of nearby
Framlingham College. It was largely destroyed in a fire in 1847 and rebuilt as an exact replica by its then owner
Charles Austin QC, who married Harriet Jane Ingilby of Ripley Castle and died at the hall.Sutton Hoo, a few miles away from Brandeston, is the ceremonial burial place of the first English kings, who led their people through the misty marshlands of what is now the River Deben and established their first settlements on its banks.The number of households from the period 1831 to 1961 fluctuates with little pattern. The data has no huge anomalies except for one but yet no clear relationship. For example, the one large anomaly in the data is the period from 1831 to 1851. In 1831 there were 64 occupied households yet in 1841 there were 108 before declining again to 66 households occupied in 1851. The 20th century map of Brandeston from Vision of Britain shows Brandeston and the surrounding villages, including Cretingham, Hoo and Kettleburgh. == Churches ==