Moat Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Moat Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- drifting-threshold-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moat Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1602, as indicated by the date on the gable bressumer. It features a timber frame with colourwashed render and brick, topped with a pantile roof that was originally thatched. The building has two storeys with an attic.
On the entrance front, there is a projecting later wing on the right with a hipped roof. This wing has a 4-light window on its left flank and a 20th-century single light window in an earlier opening to the left. On the first floor, there is a 19th-century 3-light casement window on the right and a 20th-century 2-light window on the left. The axial range to the left has decorative pargetting and a 19th-century half-glazed door near the centre, located beneath the ridge stack. To the right of this door is a 20th-century window, and to the left is a similar window. The first floor features two 20th-century windows in earlier openings. At the ridge on the left, there is a chimney stack with a rectangular base and sawtooth flues.
The left gable end has 19th-century French windows on the ground floor and a central light on the first floor, flanked by 3-light windows with ovolo-moulded surrounds and mullions. The jettied gable is supported by decoratively carved brackets and features a bressumer with carvings that include the initials I E and the date 1602, repeated twice. There is a two-light attic window from the 19th or 20th century.
The left side of the building includes the later timber-framed wing, which has two 3-light windows on the ground floor and a 2-light and a 3-light window on the first floor. The gable end on the right features a 20th-century single-flue stack with offsets and a sash window with 3 x 3 panes, along with a 19th-century casement window in the gable.
At the rear, there is a doorway located to the right of centre beneath the stack. To the right of this door are two 20th-century windows, and to the left are similar windows. On the first floor, there is a 20th-century window on the left and a 19th-century sash window with 3 x 2 panes to the left of centre. Above the door is a 3-light window with ovolo-moulded mullions and surround. The interior has not been inspected.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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