Moat Farmhouse

SOUTH ELMHAM ALL SAINTS' COMMON TM 38 SW ALL SAINTS & ST. NICHOLAS

4/24 Moat Farmhouse -

• II

Farmhouse, moated on 3 sides. Circa 1600. 2 storeys and attics to main house; 1½ storeys to a small extension on the left dated 1841. Timber-framed and rendered; black glazed pantiles; formerly thatched. Basic 3-cell form, with an internal chimney-stack and cross-entry. The internal stack has a large, square red brick shaft with corbelled head and chimney-pots. A smaller, similar stack on the right gable. 4 windows and one blank to the upper floor, 3 windows to the ground floor, all old casements with.transomes, 2-light and 3-light. C19 porch in matching materials: fluted bargeboards, spike finial, 4-panelled door. Plain interior with much framing covered. On the left, one bay has wide flat plain joists and a chamfered main beam on the ground floor. The roof has stepped butt purlins with pared-off ends and an upper row of clasped purlins. Old plank doors in the attics. The internal stack may have been inserted into an early smoke-bay.

Listing NGR: TM3446682479