Moat Farmhouse
MOAT FARMHOUSE, WYVERSTONE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032213
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MOAT FARMHOUSE, WYVERSTONE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032213
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOAT FARMHOUSE, WYVERSTONE ROAD
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:
- MOAT FARMHOUSE, WYVERSTONE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Badwell Ash
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 01392 68233
Details
TM 06 NW BADWELL ASH WYVERSTONE ROAD
5/14 Moat Farmhouse
II
Former farmhouse. C15 and later. Timber-framed and rendered; old plaintiles to main roof, concrete plaintiles to rear wing. 2 storeys; 3-cell form to main range. Restored exterior. An internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft, the top courses sloped inwards. Various casement windows, 2- light and 3-light, all small-paned. 6-panelled door, the top 2 panels glazed; large portico in Doric style. Basically a medieval house, with the entrance door still in the cross-entry position and the 2 bays of the open hall remaining. The cambered tie-beam of the open truss has mortices for long arched braces in its soffit and a mortice for a crown-post, removed to adapt the roof-space for storage, possibly in C18. Main posts chamfered and heavily jowled. The inserted ceiling in the hall has a main cross-beam, trimmers set skew, and large flat unchamfered joists, widely-spaced. An inserted 2-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window on the upper rear wall. To the left of the entry little evidence, apart from 'a 4-light diamond-mullioned window in the rear upper wall; timbers covered, roof inaccessible; possibly enlarged. Chimney-stack inserted against the end wall of the hall: 2 open fireplaces with plain timber lintels. To the right of the stack, an early C17 parlour replacement on an enlarged scale: roof with clasped and butt purlins. A low rear wing runs into this end of the house, and appears earlier in date: 1½ bays remain, with rough unchamfered medieval joists and evidence for a partition wall; some of the timbers may be reused. Latterly it was used as a dairy, and unglazed. The house stands on a fully moated site.
Listing NGR: TM0139268233
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281759
- 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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