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
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Moat Farmhouse, Swan Lane, Cretingham, IP13 7AZ
- OS grid reference
- TM 235 613
- Coordinates
- 52.20526, 1.27001
- 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.
Local climate
Moat Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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