The Moat

THE MOAT, PETTAUGH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1240222
Date first listed:
16-Jan-1995
List Entry Name:
The Moat
Statutory Address:
THE MOAT, PETTAUGH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1240222
Date first listed:
16-Jan-1995
List Entry Name:
The Moat
Statutory Address 1:
THE MOAT, PETTAUGH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE MOAT, PETTAUGH LANE

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Gosbeck
National Grid Reference:
TM1653356911

Details

GOSBECK PETTAUGH LANE
TM15NE
4/10001 The Moat

Farmhouse. Circa early C17, extended in C20. Roughcast timber frame. Hipped
plain tile roof with gable end to rear wing. Roughcast brick axial stack.
PLAN:3-room plan; parlour on left (S) in cross-wing with projects at rear
only and hall at centre, both heated from back to back fireplaces in axial
stack; smaller unheated room to right (N) end, now with C19 stack on north
end wall. A partition has been inserted across the back of the parlour to
create a stairhall in the rear wing and a C20 single storey outshut has been
built behind the remainder of the house. EXTERIOR:2 storeys. Asymmetrical
1:3 window east front. Large C20 3-light casements and C20 gabled porch to
left of centre. C20 conservatory on south end. At rear (west) projecting
gabled cross-wing on right and single storey outshut on left; C20 casements.
INTERIOR:Hall has exposed close studding, jowled posts, chamfered rail,
ovolo-moulded axial beam with concave stops and rebuilt Tudor arch brick
fireplace. Parlour in left hand(S) cross-wing has intersecting ceiling beams
with roll moulded arrises, cyma moulded cornice, C20 fireplace and C18
2-panel doors. C20 staircase in back of cross-wing. Right hand (N) room has
exposed jowled posts, chamfered wall-plate and tie beams and chamfered axial
beams. Original 4-bay roof over main range and 3-bays over cross-wing with
large cambered collars, clasped side purlins and curved wind-braces.
Originally attic chambers, main stack has fireplace with unchamfered timber
lintel.


Listing NGR: TM1653356911

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
438336
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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