Description

SJ 40 MW PONTESBURY C.P. -

4/143 Moat Hall
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- II

Farmhouse. Early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber
frame mainly concealed by red brick to ground floor and roughcast above,
plain tile roof. L-plan; hall (formerly jettied to east) with short
cross-wing to south-west later extended westwards under a slightly
lower roof. 2 storeys and attic; framing: close studding said to be
exposed to west wall of cross-wing; 3-window east front, 3-light mid-
C20 wooden mullioned and transomed windows with French window to lower
left and gabled dormers above in roof slope; central entrance under
open timber porch; prominent axial red brick stack in roof slope to
right and another stack behind ridge at junction between hall range
and cross-wing. The west wall of the cross-wing is said to have an
original window to ground floor and the brackets of an oriel window
above. Interior: not inspected, but noted as having an original newel
staircase to one side of cross-wing stack; ceiling beam to hall with
ovolo-moulded chamfer stops and in bedroom above a plaster ceiling
ornamented in relief with a central Tudor rose, bay trees, oak trees,
vines and fleurs-de-lys. The house was formerly surrounded by a circular
moat. Access to premises not possible at time of re-survey (January 1985).
V.C.H. VIII (1968), p.263; H.E. Forrest, Some Old Shropshire Houses (1924),
Pp.181-3.

Listing NGR: SJ4493408235

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26471126

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)