Moat Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Moat Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- iron-attic-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Moat Farmhouse, High Road, Swilland, IP6 9LW
- OS grid reference
- TM 191 535
- Coordinates
- 52.13678, 1.20143
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moat Farmhouse is probably a 16th-century farmhouse, with alterations in the 20th century. It is a two-storey, three-cell hall range with an early or original rear wing. The house has timber framing and plaster. It has a hipped, plaintiled roof with an internal chimney of red brick, and another massive internal chimney within the rear wing. The windows are 2- and 3-light casements from the 20th century. A gabled, 20th-century entrance porch has a glazed, 2-panelled door.
Local climate
Moat Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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