Moat Farmhouse
MOAT FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033465
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MOAT FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033465
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOAT FARMHOUSE
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bures St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 91946 34993
Details
BURES ST MARY 1. 5377 TL 9134 26/114 Moat Farmhouse
II - Farmhouse, now house. Early C16, with C17 porch and C15 rear range remodelled in C17. Render over timber frame; plain old tile roofs, hipped with gablets to early C16 front range and gabled to rear range; early C16 brick rear lateral stack, with brattished relief panels and 3 diagonally-set brick flues; large C16/early C17 brick external end stack to left of rear range. Early C16 house of conventional 3-unit plan with central hall, opening into rear left range used as a service range and back kitchen since the C16. Early C16 2-storey, 3-window range with mid C20 sashes and mid C20 panelled door to gabled 2-storey porch to left of centre; C16 3-light wood-mullioned window adjoins rear stack. Rear left range has mid C20 sashes to front bay and mid C20 flat roof to early/mid C19 brick rear outshot; one-storey, 2-window range extension further to left. Interior: exposed good-quality C16 timber frame; small service chamber to left of central hall which has hollow-moulded joists to pyramidal-stopped chamfered beam and moulded beam with cusped stop, a C16 Tudor-arched brick fireplace, 2 bays to right with plain joists and chamfered beams; mortices for removed diamond-mullioned windows. Studded partitions flanking hall range are continued into roof framing, with 2-bay crown-post roof with lateral bracing to octagonal crown post set on braced and cambered first-floor tie beam; two short bays to right with close-studded trusses, the one to right having a cambered tie beam, and a transverse partition; similar closed truss and transverse partition to bay on left; remains of early C16 combed pargetting around rear lateral stack. Rear left range of 3 bays with bracing to tie beams; C17 clasped-purlin roof to right of C15 coupled-rafter roof; ground-floor room has C17 chamfered beams, chamfered bressummer overopen fireplace and long shutter slide to beam on right. A good example of an early C16 2-storey house, with a crown-post roof to the central upper chamber and standing on a moated site.
Listing NGR: TL9194634993
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 278697
- 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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