Moat House
MOAT HOUSE, WATTISHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198478
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Moat House
- Statutory Address:
- MOAT HOUSE, WATTISHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198478
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Moat House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOAT HOUSE, WATTISHAM 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, WATTISHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ringshall
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 01825 52240
Details
RINGSHALL WATTISHAM ROAD TM 05 SW
5/173 Moat House
- II
Former farmhouse. Circa 1400, with alterations of mid C16 and early C17. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roofs: a cross-wing to left and a lean-to right. An early C17 axial chimney of red brick has a central pilaster shaft. Mid C20 small-pane casements, and boarded entrance door at side. The central 2-bay open hall has good features of early C15: heavy close- studding, with minimal tension bracing. A blocked doorway with 2-centred head leading to the parlour (the latter was apparently demolished and rebuilt as a leanto in C18 or c19). Fine open crownpost truss: the slightly-cambered tie- beam is moulded with double roll and hollow chamfer; one of a pair of arch- braces of 2-centred curvature (mainly concealed, the second is missing); large octagonal crownpost with moulded capital and base, and thick 4-way braces. Circa 1550, an upper floor was inserted in the hall with beams and joists well- moulded with a sunk hollow chamfer; and a wide lintelled fireplace was positioned in the cross-entry. The cross-wing may be original, but remodelled in c17 to provide a parlour with brick arched fireplace, and again in mid C20. Associated partial medieval moat.
Listing NGR: TM0182552240
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279948
- 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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