Moat Farmhouse
MOAT FARMHOUSE, MOAT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1337982
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MOAT FARMHOUSE, MOAT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1337982
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOAT FARMHOUSE, MOAT STREET
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, MOAT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gestingthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 81591 36824
Details
TL 83 NW GESTINGTHORPE MOAT STREET 2/28 Moat Farmhouse 7.8.52 GV II*
House. Late C14 with C16 and later alterations and additions. Timber framed and plastered. Red tiled roof. 2 red brick chimney stacks probably late C15. Half H-plan with gabled crosswings. Gablet to right. 2 storeys. 1:2:1 window range of 3 light casements with transoms including a red tiled bay to ground floor left. Red plain tiled trellis porch. C19 2 panel door with 4 lights. Interior. West wing of 4 bays with jowled storey posts. Cambered tie beams. 2 free standing 4 armed crown posts support a very large collar purlin. 3 original door heads remain on ground floor, two with deep segmental heads, the third, two centred-arch with moulded label, shafted jambs with moulded capitals and bellbases. C16 staircase with square handrail and balusters. In the modern lean-to rear porch is a cut down door, probably original. East wing of 3 bays, probably jettied to front. Inserted red brick chimney stack. One crown post survives of the original roof also the collar purlin and part of the gable frame. Central Hall. Roof probably a C16 rebuild incorporating original sooted timbers with splayed and bridled scarf and halved and bladed scarf. Large inserted brick chimney. Early C16 inserted first floor ceiling. Two storey main posts seem to be fully framed with the floor. Later internal details include a number of C16 doors and a fine C17 cupboard. RCMH 3. Moated site.
Listing NGR: TL8159136824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114266
- 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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