Description

SOUTH ELMHAM ALL SAINTS' COMMON
TM 38 SW ALL SAINTS & ST. NICHOLAS

4/24 Moat Farmhouse
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- II

Farmhouse, moated on 3 sides. Circa 1600. 2 storeys and attics to main
house; 1½ storeys to a small extension on the left dated 1841. Timber-framed
and rendered; black glazed pantiles; formerly thatched. Basic 3-cell form,
with an internal chimney-stack and cross-entry. The internal stack has a
large, square red brick shaft with corbelled head and chimney-pots. A
smaller, similar stack on the right gable. 4 windows and one blank to the
upper floor, 3 windows to the ground floor, all old casements with.transomes,
2-light and 3-light. C19 porch in matching materials: fluted bargeboards,
spike finial, 4-panelled door. Plain interior with much framing covered. On
the left, one bay has wide flat plain joists and a chamfered main beam on the
ground floor. The roof has stepped butt purlins with pared-off ends and an
upper row of clasped purlins. Old plank doors in the attics. The internal
stack may have been inserted into an early smoke-bay.

Listing NGR: TM3446682479

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26572876

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)