Moat Farmhouse
MOAT FARMHOUSE, ALL SAINTS' COMMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284071
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MOAT FARMHOUSE, ALL SAINTS' COMMON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284071
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOAT FARMHOUSE, ALL SAINTS' COMMON
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 FARMHOUSE, ALL SAINTS' COMMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- All Saints and St. Nicholas, South Elmham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 34466 82479
Details
SOUTH ELMHAM ALL SAINTS' COMMON TM 38 SW ALL SAINTS & ST. NICHOLAS
4/24 Moat Farmhouse -
- II
Farmhouse, moated on 3 sides. Circa 1600. 2 storeys and attics to main house; 1½ storeys to a small extension on the left dated 1841. Timber-framed and rendered; black glazed pantiles; formerly thatched. Basic 3-cell form, with an internal chimney-stack and cross-entry. The internal stack has a large, square red brick shaft with corbelled head and chimney-pots. A smaller, similar stack on the right gable. 4 windows and one blank to the upper floor, 3 windows to the ground floor, all old casements with.transomes, 2-light and 3-light. C19 porch in matching materials: fluted bargeboards, spike finial, 4-panelled door. Plain interior with much framing covered. On the left, one bay has wide flat plain joists and a chamfered main beam on the ground floor. The roof has stepped butt purlins with pared-off ends and an upper row of clasped purlins. Old plank doors in the attics. The internal stack may have been inserted into an early smoke-bay.
Listing NGR: TM3446682479
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282284
- 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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