Moat Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. House.
Moat Hall
- WRENN ID
- spare-mantel-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- House
- Address
- Moat Hall, Plummers Road, Fordham
- OS grid reference
- TL 930 289
- Coordinates
- 51.92549, 0.80572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moat Hall, formerly known as Moat Farmhouse, is a house dating from around 1749, with parts that date back to the 16th century. It is timber framed and plastered, standing two storeys high with attics. The front features a range of five small pane sash windows on the first storey, with the central window being round-headed. The central front door has eight fielded panels and is topped by a Doric pediment, flanked by two fluted pilasters with triglyphs on the entablature. There are two matching sash windows on both the left and right sides of the door. The building has an L-shaped plan with ridged and gabled roofs covered in peg tiles. The eaves are coved in timber, and there are moulded red brick chimney stacks at the terminals. The site is partly moated.
Local climate
Moat Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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