MOAT HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1123926
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: MOAT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MOAT HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1123926
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: MOAT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MOAT HOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MOAT HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Epping Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Matching
National Grid Reference:: TL 53659 11276

Details

TL 51 SW MATCHING MATCHING GREEN Moat House 3/72

GV II*

Hall house, probably a manor house, c.1500, altered in C16 and C20. Timber framed, ground floor walls faced with red brickwork, Flemish bond, upper walls plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall aligned approx. NW- SE, with 3-bay parlour/solar crosswing to SE, jettied to SW. Axial chimney stack NW of middle of hall, late C16. External chimney stack on SE wall of crosswing, English bond, with 2 bee boles under Tudor arched heads, late C16. Single storey lean-to extensions to NE with roofs of corrugated asbestos, C20. Bay window at E corner, C20. Hall block single storey with attics, crosswing 2 storeys. Bay window, tiled gabled porch, casement window, all C20. Gabled dormer with C20 casement window, C20 casement window above jetty. Some framing exposed internally. Walls close-studded. Original partition between NE and middle bay of crosswing from ground to roof, close-studded. Both roofs of crownpost construction, original hip at NE end of crosswing open to rafters. Side braces of crownpost at NW end of hall, and inserted studding, indicate that originally there was a third bay beyond, and service end, now missing. Floor of crosswing has binding beam with double ogee moulding, plain joists of horizontal section. Inserted floor in hall has transverse beam with double ogee moulding, axial beam probably similar originally but mutilated as the result of fire damage. Common joists, where visible, are of square section with hollow chamfers. Apart from fire damage, limited to one lower bay of hall, this house retains an unusual number of original features of high quality. Moated site. RCHM 9.

Listing NGR: TL5365911276

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Legacy System number:: 118178
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.