The Moat House
THE MOAT HOUSE, MAWBYS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1361263
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Moat House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MOAT HOUSE, MAWBYS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1361263
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Moat House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MOAT HOUSE, MAWBYS LANE
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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.
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:
- THE MOAT HOUSE, MAWBYS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Appleby Magna
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 31604 09798
Details
APPLEBY MAGNA MAWBY'S LANE (south side) SK 30 NW 6/11 The Moat House 16.12.52 II* House, partly mediaeval, C16 and later centuries. 2 storeys comprising a C15 gatehouse with C16 timber-framed hall and solar section. Timber-framed rectangle set behind and to left of gatehouse, the resulting rear square filled in by C19 addition. A twin span plain tiled roof, one span over gatehouse, the other over rest. Gatehouse front of ashlar with stone plinth. Ashlar continues round to half of gable ends which are otherwise C19 brick. Stonework has shaped stone string courses, first floor cut back. Heads of 4 large buttresses once on edge of moat visible. This part only filled in. Front door, left of centre, is original gateway with 3 centred arch. Left a crosslet renewed C20 and right a 1-light window. Above a renewed rectangular framed tablet of 3 quatrefoils enclosing 3 plain shields. Above a 3-light mullion window with renewed pointed arches. To left a renewed 2-light mullion window with cusped arches. To right a similar though probably original window and the projecting stone channel of a stone drainage bowl inside. First floor string course interrupted by later rebuilding. Gatehouse left gable ashlar contains a narrow slit opening below and a 2-light mullion cusped-headed window above. Otherwise 2 C19 windows. Right gable ashlar contains a 1-light window below otherwise C19 windows. The timber-framed section is of 2 bays with close studding, angle braces, plastered infill; its stone plinth set 1m to rear of gatehouse. There is a large central stone chimney with C19 brick ridge stack. On front visible to left of gatehouse 7-light wooden mullion below and 4-light above. On left gable end small 4-light wooden mullion on first floor and brick gable with 3-light casement. Rear wall is part timber-framed, part stone of central chimney and part C19 ashlar. Various windows including 5-light mullion below. To left the C19 addition with various doors and casements. A C19 brick stack in valley between this and gatehouse. Interior: exposed stone and timber-framed walls. A series of carved stone panels probably from earlier house above fireplace of left ground floor room of C16 section. Stone arched fireplace in dining room.
"Appleby Magna is the best preserved mediaeval house on a moated site. The original late 15th century gatehouse still stands practically unaltered, and behind it is one of the best examples of 'black and white' timber-framed houses in the county ....., replacing the original mediaeval manor house of the Appleby family who had been squires here as far back as the reign of Henry II. George Appleby sold the ancestral manor in 1560, and the half timbered house may have been built immediately afterwards by the new owner." Hoskins, W.G., The Heritage of Leicestershire, 2nd Edition, Leicester 1950, pp 1, 14-16.
Listing NGR: SK3160409798
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 187899
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hoskins, WG, The Heritage of Leicestershire, (1950), 1, 14-16
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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