Listed Building: MOAT FARMHOUSE (278697)

BURES ST MARY 1. 5377 TL 9134 26/114 Moat Farmhouse II - Farmhouse, now house. Early C16, with C17 porch and C15 rear range remodelled in C17. Render over timber frame; plain old tile roofs, hipped with gablets to early C16 front range and gabled to rear range; early C16 brick rear lateral stack, with brattished relief panels and 3 diagonally-set brick flues; large C16/early C17 brick external end stack to left of rear range. Early C16 house of conventional 3-unit plan with central hall, opening into rear left range used as a service range and back kitchen since the C16. Early C16 2-storey, 3-window range with mid C20 sashes and mid C20 panelled door to gabled 2-storey porch to left of centre; C16 3-light wood-mullioned window adjoins rear stack. Rear left range has mid C20 sashes to front bay and mid C20 flat roof to early/mid C19 brick rear outshot; one-storey, 2-window range extension further to left. Interior: exposed good-quality C16 timber frame; small service chamber to left of central hall which has hollow-moulded joists to pyramidal-stopped chamfered beam and moulded beam with cusped stop, a C16 Tudor-arched brick fireplace, 2 bays to right with plain joists and chamfered beams; mortices for removed diamond-mullioned windows. Studded partitions flanking hall range are continued into roof framing, with 2-bay crown-post roof with lateral bracing to octagonal crown post set on braced and cambered first-floor tie beam; two short bays to right with close-studded trusses, the one to right having a cambered tie beam, and a transverse partition; similar closed truss and transverse partition to bay on left; remains of early C16 combed pargetting around rear lateral stack. Rear left range of 3 bays with bracing to tie beams; C17 clasped-purlin roof to right of C15 coupled-rafter roof; ground-floor room has C17 chamfered beams, chamfered bressummer overopen fireplace and long shutter slide to beam on right. A good example of an early C16 2-storey house, with a crown-post roof to the central upper chamber and standing on a moated site. Listing NGR: TL9194634993