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Wrentham Hall was a large now demolished Manor House to the north-west of the village of Wrentham, Suffolk, England and which stood on what is now Blackmoor Farm.
The manor of Wrentham was owned by the Brewsters, a well established Suffolk family and the Hall was built to a conventional Elizabethan E-plan in 1550 by Humphrey Brewster (1526-1593). It passed down in the Brewster family from Humphrey to his son Francis (1566-1644) and from Francis to his son Robert Brewster (1599-1633), a Parliamentary commander during the Civil War and MP for both Dunwich and Suffolk. From Robert it passed to his son Francis (1623-1671), also MP for both constituencies, and then, Francis having no sons, to Francis' brother Robert (died 1681). After several more generations it descended to Humphrey Brewster, who died unmarried in 1797.
The hall and its land were soon afterwards sold to Sir Thomas Gooch, 4th Baronet of Benacre Hall, who auctioned the contents and demolished the hall in 1810.
A more recent building elsewhere in the village, constructed in 1862, is now also referred to as Wrentham Hall.