The Moot Hall

The Moot Hall is a house that dates from the late 15th century and was originally known as Mannings Farmhouse from Hawstead, Bury St. Edmunds. It was moved in its entirety and re-erected on its current site around 1911, under the direction of architects Messrs. Gill and Reigate from Oxford Street, London, with the addition of chimney stacks and some windows. The building features a timber frame with vari-patterned red brick nogging infill and red plain tiled roofs.

It has external red brick chimney stacks on both the left and right, each with three attached diagonal shafts, bands, and capping, while the rear stack has two similar shafts. The house is designed in a T-plan with a rear wing that has plaster infill. It stands two storeys high with attics, showcasing a jettied first floor and a central gable that features carved bressumers and carved bargeboards. The close-set heavy studding is complemented by diagonal halved braces and jowled storey posts.

The gable includes a six-light mullion window, while the first floor has a central five-light cross transom oriel window with a moulded head and soffit, flanked by two four-light mullion windows. On the ground floor, there are carved brackets supporting the jetty, with a six-light mullion and transom window on the left and a four-light mullion and transom window on the right. The returns feature smaller, similar vari-light mullion windows, all of which are square leaded with moulded mullions and transoms. A gabled porch with a panelled door is located at the rear right. The Essex County Chronicle reported on this relocation on 30 June 1911.