Moat House
MOAT HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289120
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Moat House
- Statutory Address:
- MOAT HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289120
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Moat House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOAT HOUSE
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Prees
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 58644 32763
Details
PREES C.P. FAULSGREEN SJ 53 SE 7/69 Moat House - - II Farmhouse, now house. Late C16 and early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with rendered infill and plinth; machine tile roof. Hall range in 2 unequal framed bays with slightly later 2-bay gabled cross-wing projecting to right; hall range apparently formerly extended further to left but truncated and rebuilt to left of stack late C20. One storey and attic. Framing: square and rectangular panels, 3 from cill to wall-plate with short straight tension braces and V- struts from collars to cross-wing; prominent gabled jettied full dormer to hall range has diagonal struts, cusped quatrefoil above bressumer and V-struts from collar. Irregular fenestration; late C20 leaded mullion windows and casements said to be in imitation of original windows, one of 5 lights to dormer with 2 casements directly below and another casement to far right to hall range; gable of cross-wing has one window on each floor. Mullioned and transomed window to rear dormer of hall range probably partly original but much restored. Entrance through late C20 gabled rendered porch to left of hall range with late C20 French window to left wall of cross-wing. Red brick ridge stack to left of hall range and integrall lateral stack with dentilled band to right wall of cross- wing. C20 gabled porch to back wall of hall range has datestone "H/RS/ 1702" said formerly to have been in the back wall and possibly referring to the cladding or rebuilding of that wall (now rendered) in brick. Interior: timber frame exposed throughout with wattle and daub infill visible to several panels; ground-floor rooms have moulded and chamfered ceiling beams and heavy joists; rebuilt red brick fireplaces with segmental arches; plank and muntin doors throughout. Single-purlin collar and tie beam roofs to both hall range and cross-wing have exposed trusses and straight windbraces. The house stands within a well-preserved but now dry square-shaped moat.
Listing NGR: SJ5864432763
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260526
- 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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