Description

ST 98 NW ST PAUL MALMESBURY GRANGE LANE
WITHOUT (east side)

5/152 The Moat House
(formerly listed as
12.12.51 Dower House)

GV II

Former service building to royal stud farm, now detached house. Early C17 with C18 and C19 alterations. Some rubble and colourwashed brick with stone dressings, stone slate roof and rear brick stacks. Rectangular plan with C17 section to the west and
C19 addition to the east end. Two-storey and attic, 3-window courtyard front. Windows to the left are 2 and 3-light C19 casements, ovolo-moulded mullions to ground floor right; attic windows are under 2 gables which are C19 insertions. Plank door off-set to left. West end wall has further mullioned fenestration and gabled porch with plank door. Former hipped roof to west end breached by the C19 gables. Lean-to milking loggia on circular brick piers to rear wall.
Interior. Several chamfered beams, rustic plaster motif to ceiling of ground floor room in centre, plain C18 staircase with mahogany handrail and square balusters and original butt-purlin, collar-beam roof structure with C19 modifications. The building is reputed to
have served as a Quaker meeting house.

Listing NGR: ST9405685343

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26645680

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)