Moat House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Farmhouse.

Moat House

WRENN ID
odd-landing-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Moat House, Framlingham Road, Earl Soham
OS grid reference
TM 242 636
Coordinates
52.2256, 1.28158
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Moat House is a farmhouse dating from the early 19th century, with some earlier work at the rear. It has an L-shaped plan and is constructed of colourwashed brick with a hipped slated roof. The building is two storeys high and features a four-window range arranged as 1:1:2, with slightly inset sashes that have glazing bars and flat arches. The entrance bay is asymmetrical and set slightly forward, featuring a six-panel door with the upper four panels glazed, a rectangular fanlight with glazing bars, panelled reveals, and a reeded architrave. The entrance is complemented by an open timber porch supported by pilasters and slender columns with a bracketed cornice. There is also a semi-circular headed sash window on the first floor. At the rear, there is a timber framed and plastered wing that has been much altered, along with a mid-20th century extension.

Local climate

Moat House 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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