Moat Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Moat Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-brass-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Moat Farmhouse, Wyverstone Road, Badwell Ash
- OS grid reference
- TM 013 682
- Coordinates
- 52.27536, 0.95058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moat Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the 15th century and later. It features a timber-framed and rendered structure with old plain tiles on the main roof and concrete plain tiles on the rear wing. The building has two storeys and a three-cell form in the main range, with a restored exterior. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack made of plain red brick, with the top courses sloping inwards. The windows are various casement types, including two-light and three-light, all with small panes. The entrance features a six-panelled door, with the top two panels glazed, and is framed by a large Doric-style portico.
The house retains its medieval character, with the entrance door located in the traditional cross-entry position and two bays of the open hall still intact. The cambered tie-beam of the open truss has mortices for long arched braces and for a crown-post, which has been removed to adapt the roof space for storage, likely in the 18th century. The main posts are chamfered and heavily jowled. An inserted ceiling in the hall includes a main cross-beam, skew-set trimmers, and large flat unchamfered joists that are widely spaced. There is also an inserted two-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window on the upper rear wall.
To the left of the entry, there is little evidence of earlier features, apart from a four-light diamond-mullioned window in the rear upper wall. The roof is inaccessible and the timbers are covered, suggesting possible enlargement. A chimney stack has been inserted against the end wall of the hall, featuring two open fireplaces with plain timber lintels. To the right of the stack is an early 17th-century parlour, which has been enlarged and features a roof with clasped and butt purlins. A low rear wing extends from this end of the house and appears to be of an earlier date, with one and a half bays remaining, rough unchamfered medieval joists, and evidence of a partition wall; some timbers may be reused. This area was later used as a dairy and is unglazed. The farmhouse is situated on a fully moated site.
Local climate
Moat Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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