Moat Hall
MOAT HALL, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315400
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MOAT HALL, CHURCH LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315400
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOAT HALL, CHURCH 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 HALL, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Ouseburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45197 60995
Details
SE 4460-4560 and SE 4461-4561
9/44 and 10/44
15/3/66
LITTLE OUSEBURN
CHURCH LANE
(west side)
Moat Hall
GV
II
House. Early-mid C18 incorporating part of C17 or earlier house; late
C18 alteration; late C19 extension and alteration, and further alteration
in C20. C17 part timber-framed. Exterior probably brick, now rendered
and colour-washed. Roof of front range pantile with stone slate verge;
other roofs slate. Stacks rendered or whitewashed brick. Central-entry
plan, with three parallel ranges. 2-storey, 5-window front. Fielded
panelled front door, with 2 glazed lights, beneath blocked radial fanlight
in open-pedimented doorcase with fluted pilaster jambs. Cross windows
with small-pane casements throughout, those on first floor with cambered
heads. C18 fielded shutters to ground floor windows. Modillion eaves
cornice. Left end and centre right stacks; third massive stack rises at
rear of central roof range. Left return: C18 square sundial set in wall
at junction of front and middle ranges. Right return: original 5-light
mullioned and transomed window, on ground floor of middle range, altered
to casements.
Interior. Open well, closed string staircase with turned balusters,
square newels and moulded handrail. In front range, ceiling and beams of
ground floor left room are sunk-panelled in bolection-moulded surrounds.
Fireplaces in entrance hall and right end room of middle range have
moulded surrounds and moulded, stepped cornice shelves. Wall studding
survives in partition walls of middle range, and fine carved beam,
possibly re-used, in right end room of middle range. Doors in front range
are of 6 raised and fielded panels; plank and batten cellar door beneath
stairs in middle range. First floor: timber-framing, of braced, jowled
posts, wall plates and some studding exposed in right end bay of middle
range. C17 scratch-moulded panelled door re-used near attic stairs.
Ceilings and beams of front range rooms and of left end room of middle
range are panelled as on ground floor. Attic: two A-strutted king-post
trusses, one mutilated, are visible in middle roof range. Harrison, B,
and Hutton, B, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, pp.170
and 188; figs.8.30, 9.15.
Listing NGR: SE4519760995
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331861
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harrison, B, Hutton, B, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, (1984), 170, 188
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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