Moat Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. Farmhouse.

Moat Lodge

WRENN ID
quiet-zinc-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1955
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Moat Lodge, Southolt
OS grid reference
TM 195 687
Coordinates
52.27304, 1.21681
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Moat Lodge is a former farmhouse dating from the 16th century. It features a three-cell range with an additional wing to the northeast, creating an L-shaped plan. The building is timber framed and plastered, with some areas designed to imitate ashlar. It has a slated roof and stands two storeys high with an attic.

The main range includes small-paned casement windows from the mid-20th century and a wide gabled porch, also from the mid-20th century, which has a half-door. An internal stack has a rendered oblong shaft topped with a white brick cap. The north gable end of the main range and the side of the wing present a unified elevation: the first floor features three mid-19th century mullioned windows with hoodmoulds, while the ground floor has two flush-frame sash windows with glazing bars and two coupled non-opening casements to the left. The mid-20th century gabled porch leads to a six-panel door, and there is a gable stack to the left with a slender white brick shaft. At the rear, there is a three-light first floor window with diamond mullions. The interior has not been examined.

Local climate

Moat Lodge 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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