Moat House
MOAT HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163070
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Moat House
- Statutory Address:
- MOAT HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163070
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Moat House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOAT HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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 HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3442255341
Details
TL 3455
11/106
22.11.67
KINGSTON
CHURCH LANE
Moat House
(formerly listed as Library Farmhouse (formerly called Queens College Farmhouse)
GV
II
Manor house. C.1500. Open hall and crosswing. Floor and stack inserted
C17. A bay at the east end was replaced in C19. Timber framed, now
roughcast rendered and tiled. The West crosswing has a half hip at the South
end. Ridge stack inserted 4.11.1664, but the four grouped shafts have been
rebuilt (c.1984), and the original dated bricks have been removed. Plan of
open-hall with crosswing at west end. Internal evidence indicates that the
hall extended by one bay to the east, probably for the service bay. Hall of
two storeys. Two C19 casements-at first floor and one at ground floor.
Modern door and doorway probably on site of original entry to cross-passage.
Crosswing also two storeys with one, three light window to each storey.
Interior: Open hall of two bays. Quartered ceiling with stop chamfered main
beam. Wide arch braces to tie beam of display truss over open-hall. Jowled
posts. Roof of clasped side purlin construction with paired wind bracing.
The purlin is jointed at the collars. One of these joints occurs at the east
end indicating that there was another bay. There is no evidence of smoke-
blackening in the roof, suggesting that the open hall had a chimney
originally and that this was replaced and a floor inserted in 1664. The
crosswing, probably a parlour wing, has an ogee chamfered main beam and
heavy, hollow moulded joists (some modern). The roof is of similar wind
braced side purlin type. On a moated site.
R.C.H.M.: West Cambs. Mon. (4)
V.C.H.: Cambs. Vo. (p,l14-lls)
Listing NGR: TL3442255341
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52158
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1973), 114-115
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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