Title: |
Barn at Moat House, Park Green, Wetheringsett, Suffolk WCB 064 : Historic Building Record |
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Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
Moat House lies in open arable countryside 2.5 km south of Wetheringsett village. The 16th century grade II-listed farmhouse occupies an exceptionally well preserved moat which until its enclosure in the mid-19th century adjoined a large 59-acre common known as Brockford Green. At the time of the 1841 tithe survey the farm was a substantial tenanted holding of 164 acres with 45 acres of pasture and three common rights on Brockford Green. It then possessed a complete moat with a bridge facing a 'base' courtyard in the typical medieval pattern. The L-shaped shelter-sheds which form the subject of this report formed the south-eastern corner of an extensive new mid-19th century cattle yard complex and were depicted for the first time on the Ordnance Survey of 1904. The pantiled and weatherboarded single-storied sheds are open to the yard but include an enclosed feed store or loose box at their junction. Their softwood framing is typical of the late-19th and early-20th centuries with nailed bracing and iron pins in the roof trusses. With the exception of a ruinous brick stable and fragmentary yard walls the rest of the farm complex has been demolished, including the main barn, and the shelter-sheds have been truncated and partly rebuilt. While the site of Moat House is of considerable historic importance, given its well-preserved moat and the likelihood that the demolished barn formed part of a medieval 'base court', the shelter sheds are of relatively recent origin and are not of significant historic interest in themselves. |
Author: |
L Alston
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Publisher: |
Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Suffolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2010
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WCB 064 Barn at Moat House, Park Green, Wetheringsett |
Parish: |
WETHERINGSETT CUM BROCKFORD |
District: |
Mid Suffolk |
County: |
Suffolk |
Country: |
England |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Wetheringsett |
Grid Reference: 612800, 264510 (Easting, Northing)
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suffolkc1-79363 |
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SCCAS Report |
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A4, comb bound, white cover with colour photo (also available as PDF)
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Created Date: |
25 Nov 2016 |