Moat Hall
MOAT HALL, BILDESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284238
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MOAT HALL, BILDESTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284238
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOAT HALL, BILDESTON 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 HALL, BILDESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Combs
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 02070 54744
Details
COMBS BILDESTON ROAD TM 05 SW
5/63 Moat Hall (formerly listed as Moat Farmhouse) 9.12.55
- II
Former farmhouse. Circa 1400, with alterations of c,1500, c.1600 and c.1970. An open-hall house with a partly later-medieval cross-wing at the left hand end. 2 storeys, and one storey with attics. Timber-framed and plastered, with C20 herringbone pargetting in panels. Thatched roofs, with C20 casement dormers. The cross-wing has a pair of cusped late C15 oak bargeboards on the west gable, removed c.1970 from the east gable (the house originally faced east). Axial chimneys: in the hall range is a mid C19 chimney of gault brick with 4 diagonally-set square flues on a sawtooth-banded base; a C19 axial chimney of red brick in the wing. Plastic casements of late C20, with leaded lights. A thatched gabled C20 entrance porch with boarded door. High quality C15 carpentry: the 2-bay open hall has a central truss, without its tie-beam, but retaining the octagonal c.1400 type crownpost with moulded capital and thick 4-way braces. Close-studding without visible windbracing. The roof is heavily smoke-encrusted. The parlour cell to right is original but altered, once having had a hipped roof. The hall has evidence for a rear cross-passage doorway with a 2-centred arched head. The cross-wing is of two 2-bays sections: the projecting part is apparently of c.1400 and contemporary with the hall, it was open and heavily smoke-encrusted, with a central crownpost truss, the crownpost being octagonal and with 2-way braces. The rebuilt section has a 2-bay solar with an open truss, the octagonal crownpost being well moulded in the late C15 manner (English Vernacular Houses: Mercer: HOM.S.O., Plate 56). An upper floor was inserted in the hall in late C16, with plain framing, and a chimney with back-to-back open fireplaces to hall and parlour. Major refurbishing of c.1970 following a period of dereliction; at this time a dogleg staircase taken from a demolished inn at Stowmarket was inserted into the hall; it has turned balusters and moulded newel finials of c.1600. A large wing of c.1980 on the east side is not of special interest. The house stands within a medieval moat. N.M.R photographs.
Listing NGR: TM0207054744
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279838
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mercer, Eric, English Vernacular Houses, (1975)
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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