Moat House
MOAT HOUSE, TOWN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284645
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Moat House
- Statutory Address:
- MOAT HOUSE, TOWN LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284645
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Moat House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOAT HOUSE, TOWN 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.
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, TOWN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 12738 64548
Details
WETHERINGSETT-CUM-BROCKFORD BROCKFORD, TOWN LANE TM 16 SW 5/115 - Moat House
-- II Former farmhouse. Early-mid C16 main range, C17 service cross-wing to right, extending to rear. Timber framed, mainly plastered, part at rear roughcast- rendered. Plaintiled roof. 2 storeys, former attic in wing. Main range originally jettied to front. Various casement windows, mostly old and without glazing bars. Main range has 2 good doorways of c.1800. To left is a lobby entrance: panelled pilasters, frieze and pedimented cornice; 6-panel door, the lower 2 panels flush with reeded surrounds, the centre 2 fielded and the top 2 sunk. Doorway to right has fluted pilasters, a frieze and pedimented cornice, both enriched with roundels, and a similar 6-panel door. 2 internal stacks, one with a sawtooth shaft. Interior. Main range altered during C19, the timbers mostly concealed. Hall ceiling has heavy chamfered cross beams, the joists plastered over. Intact service partition with blocked 4-centre arched doorways. Heavy studding and chamfered-mullioned window exposed in rear wall of parlour, the mid rail O.5m. below the level of the ceiling; the timbers show remains of red ochre decoration. On upper floor, an early C19 corridor with flat arches and mid-late C19 fireplaces. Stick baluster stair in lower bay of hall. Some C16 moulded doors. The cross-wing, in 5 irregular bays, has plain studding and ceiling joists and a side purlin roof. Surrounding medieval moat.
Listing NGR: TM1273864548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281700
- 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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