Moat House Inn

MOAT HOUSE INN, BIRMINGHAM ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1355333
Date first listed:
11-Dec-1969
List Entry Name:
Moat House Inn
Statutory Address:
MOAT HOUSE INN, BIRMINGHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1355333
Date first listed:
11-Dec-1969
Date of most recent amendment:
21-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:
Moat House Inn
Statutory Address 1:
MOAT HOUSE INN, BIRMINGHAM ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MOAT HOUSE INN, BIRMINGHAM ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Warwickshire
District:
Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:
Alcester
National Grid Reference:
SP 08311 59044

Details

ALCESTER BIRMINGHAM ROAD SPOSNE (East side) King's Coughton 2/10 Moat House Inn 11/12/69 (Formerly listed as Moat Farmhouse) - II

Farmhouse, now public house. Dated 1478 on gable of wing, but north range late C16 and wing late C17 (VCH). Timber framed; north range largely faced in whitewashed brick, wing plastered with roughcast gable. Painted sham framing. Old tile roofs; brick ridge, end and lateral stacks. L-plan. North range one-storey and attic with dormers; 3-window range. Late C20 glazed porch with glazed door across re-entrant angle. C19 and C20 casements throughout. Left return side has exposed framing with heavy jowled post and whitewashed brick and plaster infill. External stack. Wing 2 storeys; one-window range. Ground floor has canted bay. Left side has ribbed door and open porch with tile roof. 2 first floor windows. Right return side has C18 external stack and ribbed door with hood on shaped brackets. To rear gable with exposed framing. Interior: Exposed heavy framing. Chamfered ceiling beams. 2 open fireplaces back to back, each with stepped stop-chamfered bressumer. (V.C.H. : Warwickshire, Vol.III, p.12; G. Edward Saville, King's Coughton: A Warwickshire Hamlet).

Listing NGR: SP0831159044

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
305167
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 12
Saville, G E, Kings Coughton A Warwickshire Hamlet, (1973)

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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