Moat House
MOAT HOUSE, OVERTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190821
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Moat House
- Statutory Address:
- MOAT HOUSE, OVERTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190821
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Moat House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOAT HOUSE, OVERTON 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 HOUSE, OVERTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Overton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 55311 55767
Details
SE 55 NE OVERTON OVERTON ROAD (south side, off)
5/28 Moat House
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II
Farmhouse. Mid-late C18 using earlier materials. Mottled pink-brown brick in Flemish bond and limestone blocks brought to course with Welsh slate roof. 2-cell direct-entry plan with added rear range and wing to rear left. 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Central 6-panel door and overlight in C20 corniced doorcase flanked by C20 bow windows. C20 sashes with cement lintels above. End stacks. Rear: rear range rendered has old board door with iron fittings in wood frame to right of side-sliding sash with glazing bars. 16-pane sash above, to left, and unequally-hung 9-pane sash to right. Roof hipped on right. Rear of wing has large limestone blocks, tumbling-in and evidence of roof having been raised. Right return of house: large limestone blocks, tumbling-in to gable. Left return: tumbling-in to house gable. Wing lower and rendered with C20 windows. Stack to left end. Single-storey bay added to left end has C20 door and windows and pantile roof. Interior: partition walls of reused timber and wattle; chamfered spine-beams on both floors; kitchen (back) door ledged and battened on large 'T' hinges; probably C17 oak-panelled doors with butterfly and H-shaped hinges to rooms and cupboards on both floors and to cellar; dog-leg stair with splat balusters, moulded hand-rail and newel. The date 1762 said by a former owner to have been inscribed on chimney breast, but now covered (NYCVBSG Report). Principal rafter roof of reused timbers (NYCVGSG Report). Room added to rear of wing originally a forge (now part of house) and retains, inside, large flue. On a moated site on which an earlier house, Old Hall, was rebuilt in 1406 but demolished by 1736 (VCH, p 167). The stone and perhaps panelling, in the present building was probably reused from the earlier house.
NYCVBSG Report No 514. VCH II, pl67.
Listing NGR: SE5531155767
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332121
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1923), 167
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report, Vol. 514, ()
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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