Moat Hall

SE 4460-4560 and SE 4461-4561 9/44 and 10/44 15/3/66

LITTLE OUSEBURN CHURCH LANE (west side) Moat Hall

GV II

House. Early-mid C18 incorporating part of C17 or earlier house; late C18 alteration; late C19 extension and alteration, and further alteration in C20. C17 part timber-framed. Exterior probably brick, now rendered and colour-washed. Roof of front range pantile with stone slate verge; other roofs slate. Stacks rendered or whitewashed brick. Central-entry plan, with three parallel ranges. 2-storey, 5-window front. Fielded panelled front door, with 2 glazed lights, beneath blocked radial fanlight in open-pedimented doorcase with fluted pilaster jambs. Cross windows with small-pane casements throughout, those on first floor with cambered heads. C18 fielded shutters to ground floor windows. Modillion eaves cornice. Left end and centre right stacks; third massive stack rises at rear of central roof range. Left return: C18 square sundial set in wall at junction of front and middle ranges. Right return: original 5-light mullioned and transomed window, on ground floor of middle range, altered to casements. Interior. Open well, closed string staircase with turned balusters, square newels and moulded handrail. In front range, ceiling and beams of ground floor left room are sunk-panelled in bolection-moulded surrounds. Fireplaces in entrance hall and right end room of middle range have moulded surrounds and moulded, stepped cornice shelves. Wall studding survives in partition walls of middle range, and fine carved beam, possibly re-used, in right end room of middle range. Doors in front range are of 6 raised and fielded panels; plank and batten cellar door beneath stairs in middle range. First floor: timber-framing, of braced, jowled posts, wall plates and some studding exposed in right end bay of middle range. C17 scratch-moulded panelled door re-used near attic stairs. Ceilings and beams of front range rooms and of left end room of middle range are panelled as on ground floor. Attic: two A-strutted king-post trusses, one mutilated, are visible in middle roof range. Harrison, B, and Hutton, B, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, pp.170 and 188; figs.8.30, 9.15.

Listing NGR: SE4519760995