Building record 0030301000 - MOAT HOUSE, PARSONAGE FARM

Plan Form - RECTANGULAR
HOUSE IN CENTRE OF AREA ENCLOSED BY MOAT (00:000).
Grade II. Circa 1600. Brick; tile roof-. Two parallel ranges, both gabled at other end. Two storeys; 7 bays. Original door on bay 3 with simple hood on brackets. All windows cross-windows with leaded lights within (on the ground floor only) segment-headed openings. String course at first floor level. Brick eaves cornice. Three dormer windows in the roof. At the back, on the right, a long gallery-like late C17 addition with 3 segment-headed dormer windows in the roof (B3).

(TQ 01688043) Moat (B4).
Parsonage Farm (now known as Moat House (B8)) dates from the 16th C but was added to and altered in the 17th. There are two barns of the same date as the earlier part of the house and a moat enclosing the house and garden (B7).
(TQ 01698045) Moat House is not outstanding architecturally, but is enclosed on the west, south and east sides by a well preserved waterfilled moat. The course of the N arm can be traced by a slight hollow across the lawn on the N side of the house. The contiguous barns are at TQ 01688053 (B9).
Moat House contains pre-16th cent work according to the owner, but is externally Georgian. The barns are in good condition. The sub-square surrounding moat is dry, measuring overall c 110.0m N-S and the same transversely with arms averaging c 10.0m wide and 2.2m deep. No trace survives of the N arm. Shown on the OS 25" to the E at TQ 01878042 is a probable supply pond, which has now been filled in together with a channel formerly connecting it to moat. Published survey (25") revised (B10 and B11).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.