Description

WETHERINGSETT-CUM-BROCKFORD BROCKFORD, TOWN LANE TM 16 SW 5/115 - Moat House

-- II Former farmhouse. Early-mid C16 main range, C17 service cross-wing to right, extending to rear. Timber framed, mainly plastered, part at rear roughcast- rendered. Plaintiled roof. 2 storeys, former attic in wing. Main range originally jettied to front. Various casement windows, mostly old and without glazing bars. Main range has 2 good doorways of c.1800. To left is a lobby entrance: panelled pilasters, frieze and pedimented cornice; 6-panel door, the lower 2 panels flush with reeded surrounds, the centre 2 fielded and the top 2 sunk. Doorway to right has fluted pilasters, a frieze and pedimented cornice, both enriched with roundels, and a similar 6-panel door. 2 internal stacks, one with a sawtooth shaft. Interior. Main range altered during C19, the timbers mostly concealed. Hall ceiling has heavy chamfered cross beams, the joists plastered over. Intact service partition with blocked 4-centre arched doorways. Heavy studding and chamfered-mullioned window exposed in rear wall of parlour, the mid rail O.5m. below the level of the ceiling; the timbers show remains of red ochre decoration. On upper floor, an early C19 corridor with flat arches and mid-late C19 fireplaces. Stick baluster stair in lower bay of hall. Some C16 moulded doors. The cross-wing, in 5 irregular bays, has plain studding and ceiling joists and a side purlin roof. Surrounding medieval moat.

Listing NGR: TM1273864548

External Links

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