Moat Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Moat Farmhouse

WRENN ID
young-moat-bistre
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, Wickham Market Road, Dallinghoo, IP13 0HJ
OS grid reference
TM 279 547
Coordinates
52.14376, 1.33057
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Moat Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse with an 18th-century wing. It is timber-framed, with colourwashed render and a plaintile roof that was originally thatched. The building has an L-shaped layout.

The south front has 20th-century windows throughout. A jettied first floor extends to the left, featuring a 3-light metal-framed ground floor window. To the right of this is a section of walling with a 2-light and a 3-light window. Further to the right are two hall windows, the second a large single expanse of plate glass extending from sill to eaves level, composed of 3x3 panes. The first floor has a 2-light window to the left of the jettied section, a single-light window to its right, and a 2-light and a single-light window separated by a king mullion. Each of the two attic gables has a 2-light window. A rectangular axial stack rises from the ridge at the left of centre, featuring vertical bands and a moulded cap. The 18th-century addition to the right of the hall window is single-storey in height with an attic, and has a single-light window at its far right. A projecting wing to the left of this addition has two single-light ground floor windows and a 3-light first floor window. The left-hand side has a doorway and a 3-light casement window to the right. A gabled dormer is situated above the casement. The left-hand gable end features a 3-light ground floor window and a jettied first floor with a 3-light window and moulded corner posts visible through the render. A 3-light attic window is also present. The gable has 20th-century moulded bargeboards.

The rear includes a projecting wing at the right of centre with 3-light ground and first floor windows. To the right of this are a 3-light ground floor window, and to the left, a 3-light and a 2-light ground floor window. Two single-light first floor windows are present, as is a further projecting gable with 2-light ground and first floor casements.

Inside, the sitting room has a massive ceiling beam which has been shaved. The other ground floor room has a dragon beam and slightly cambered ceilings. Features include jowled wall posts, originally bearing arched braces to the first floor and cambered tie beams.

Local climate

Moat Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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