The Moat House
The Moat House
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030282
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Moat House
- Statutory Address:
- The Moat House
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- Date:
- 2003-08-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/10891/19
- Rights:
- © Mr Hubert Smith. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030282
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Moat House
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Moat House
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Moat House
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Monewden
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 23983 58418
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 October 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
TM 25 NW
4/158
MONEWDEN
THE MOAT HOUSE
II
House, formerly the rectory. Circa late C16 or C17, remodelled and extended in circa 1847. Gault brick in Flemish bond, plastered timber frame at rear. Gable-ended roof, slated over front range, and more steeply pitched tile roof over back range. Brick axial stacks.
Double depth plan. The original house, the long back range with an axial stack was relegated to service rooms when in circa 1847 the front range was added; the addition comprises a central stair hall with a principal room either side. Later outshuts at rear.
Two storeys. Symmetrical three-window east front. Three sixteen-pane sashes on first floor, twenty-pane French casements on ground floor and central doorway, all with moulded cast-iron lintels on console brackets, the doorway with rectangular overlight with glazing bars and panelled and glazed door. Similar cast-iron lintels over sashes in end walls. Back range is two storeys and attic with central gabled dormer and two single storey outshuts.
Interior: Most of the mid C19 interior features survive including joinery and marble chimneypieces, those on first floor complete with cast-iron grates. Good open-well staircase with stick balusters and moulded mahogany handrail up to column newels. The ceiling of the entrance hall by the staircase is supported on a cast-iron column. In the back range the central room has exposed chamfered cross-beam supported on a large jowled post and on the first floor some wall-posts, wall-plates and tie-beams are exposed.
Note: A drawing for the remodelling of the house (in the possession of the owner) is signed David Smith-(Hunt?) and dated 1847.
Listing NGR: TM2398358418
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286573
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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