Moat Farmhouse
MOAT FARMHOUSE, HESTLEY GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352434
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MOAT FARMHOUSE, HESTLEY GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352434
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Moat Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOAT FARMHOUSE, HESTLEY GREEN
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, HESTLEY GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorndon
- National Grid Reference:
- TM1564966708
Details
TM 16 NE
4/86
THORNDON
HESTLEY GREEN
Moat Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. C15 core with C16 and C17 alterations and enlargement. Timber
framed, mainly plastered; right gable end of colourwashed brick to eaves
level. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys and attic. 3-cell form. 3 windows, C20
mullion and transom casements without glazing bars. One extra mid C20
standard window to ground floor. Lobby entrance with C19 6-panel door (upper
4 panels glazed), architrave and cornice. Internal stack with rendered shaft.
Internally the main members of the frame are visible but much of the studding
and joists are concealed. C15 work includes moulded and embattled beam
against cross-passage and buttress-shafted wallposts, once supporting the
central truss over an open hall. C16 plank and muntin screen, partly
concealed. Several good C16-C17 doors. In the hall and service cells at first
floor level the main posts have deep jowls facing towards the centre of each
bay (2 pairs of posts have double jowls), with studded cross-partitions
dividing the 3 bays. This unusual arrangement seems to be C16 work and
suggests there was once a 3-span gabled roof or triple gablets. The present
roof is of side purlin form and probably dates from early C17 when the stack
and parlour cell were added. The roof over the hall contains the supporting
structure, reminiscent of a post mill trestle, for a central post which once
protruded above the ridge. This appears to have been inserted into the
present roof and is probably of C17 date. Its precise function is unknown,
but it has been suggested it supported a platform overlooking a system of fish
ponds which once extended to the south.
Listing NGR: TM1564966708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281367
- 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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