Moat Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Moat Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- haunted-lantern-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Moat Hall Farmhouse, Martins Lane, Clopton, IP13 6QX
- OS grid reference
- TM 229 556
- Coordinates
- 52.15389, 1.25713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moat Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th or 17th century. It is timber-framed with colourwashed render and has been partially refaced with brick in the 19th century. The roof is covered with plain tiles and the building has an L-shaped plan, standing two storeys high.
On the entrance front, the windows date from the 19th century. There is a lean-to porch that projects from the right of centre, featuring a half-glazed door and a pantile roof. To the right of the porch is a sash window with 4x4 panes, and above it is a first-floor window with 4x3 panes. On the left side at ground floor level, there are two 2-light casements, and above them on the first floor is another 2-light casement. A chimneystack with three flues is located at the ridge towards the right of centre. The left side of the building has a blank gable end, while the right side features a gable end on the left and a projecting wing with a slightly higher ridge on the right. The ground floor of this wing has brick walling, with a sash window of 4x4 panes to the right and a 2-light window on the first floor. The right side of the wing continues the brick walling and has a projecting plinth, a half-glazed door on the left, and a 3-light casement on the right, along with a single-light casement to the left of the door. On the first floor, there are two 3-light casements to the left and a sash window with 4x3 panes on the right.
At the rear, there is a projecting gabled wing on the left with a 20th-century chimney stack that has two flues. The right flank features 2-light casements on both the ground and first floors. To the right on the axial range, there is a stable door on the left and two 2-light casements to the right of it, with two additional 2-light casements on the first floor.
Inside, the farmhouse has chamfered ceiling beams with stepped lamb's tongue end-stops, close-studded walls, a blocked window, and jowled wall posts.
Local climate
Moat Hall 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 — 4 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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