Moat Hall

SJ 40 MW PONTESBURY C.P. -

4/143 Moat Hall -

• II

Farmhouse. Early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber frame mainly concealed by red brick to ground floor and roughcast above, plain tile roof. L-plan; hall (formerly jettied to east) with short cross-wing to south-west later extended westwards under a slightly lower roof. 2 storeys and attic; framing: close studding said to be exposed to west wall of cross-wing; 3-window east front, 3-light mid- C20 wooden mullioned and transomed windows with French window to lower left and gabled dormers above in roof slope; central entrance under open timber porch; prominent axial red brick stack in roof slope to right and another stack behind ridge at junction between hall range and cross-wing. The west wall of the cross-wing is said to have an original window to ground floor and the brackets of an oriel window above. Interior: not inspected, but noted as having an original newel staircase to one side of cross-wing stack; ceiling beam to hall with ovolo-moulded chamfer stops and in bedroom above a plaster ceiling ornamented in relief with a central Tudor rose, bay trees, oak trees, vines and fleurs-de-lys. The house was formerly surrounded by a circular moat. Access to premises not possible at time of re-survey (January 1985). V.C.H. VIII (1968), p.263; H.E. Forrest, Some Old Shropshire Houses (1924), Pp.181-3.

Listing NGR: SJ4493408235