Moat Hall
MOAT HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176555
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MOAT HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176555
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOAT HALL
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 HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Longden
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 44934 08235
Details
SJ 40 MW PONTESBURY C.P. -
4/143 Moat Hall -
- II
Farmhouse. Early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber frame mainly concealed by red brick to ground floor and roughcast above, plain tile roof. L-plan; hall (formerly jettied to east) with short cross-wing to south-west later extended westwards under a slightly lower roof. 2 storeys and attic; framing: close studding said to be exposed to west wall of cross-wing; 3-window east front, 3-light mid- C20 wooden mullioned and transomed windows with French window to lower left and gabled dormers above in roof slope; central entrance under open timber porch; prominent axial red brick stack in roof slope to right and another stack behind ridge at junction between hall range and cross-wing. The west wall of the cross-wing is said to have an original window to ground floor and the brackets of an oriel window above. Interior: not inspected, but noted as having an original newel staircase to one side of cross-wing stack; ceiling beam to hall with ovolo-moulded chamfer stops and in bedroom above a plaster ceiling ornamented in relief with a central Tudor rose, bay trees, oak trees, vines and fleurs-de-lys. The house was formerly surrounded by a circular moat. Access to premises not possible at time of re-survey (January 1985). V.C.H. VIII (1968), p.263; H.E. Forrest, Some Old Shropshire Houses (1924), Pp.181-3.
Listing NGR: SJ4493408235
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259445
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1968), 263
Forrest, H E, Some Old Shropshire Houses and their Owners, (1924), 181-3
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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