Description

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST MOOR EDGE LANE

5/113 Moor Edge Farmhouse
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II
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Former farmhouse. Circa 1500 or earlier, with later modifications. Cob, stone
plinth, rendered, with half-hipped thatched roof. Originally a 3-room, through-
passage plan. The lower end (to the right of passage) rebuilt since 1950. 2 end
stacks and 2 external rear lateral stacks. 2 storeys.
Front: Scattered fenestration; 2 doorways, one to the extreme left, the main doorway
(to through passage) set between 2 buttresses, and with thatched timber porch; 3
ground-floor windows and 3 at 1st floor, lintels at eaves level, all casements
timber, C20.
Rear: 2 entrances, one to the rebuilt lower end, the other opposed to front passage
door and left of the external lateral stack heating Hall. 5 ground-floor 2-light
windows, and three 2-light windows to 1st floor, all timber casements, C20; one
upper 3-light window, timber casement, 8 leaded panes to each light, late C18/early
c19.
Interior: Hall retains 2 plank and muntin screens, that to passage side with
unchamfered studs, joists trenched into bressumer, one joist a reused moulded
timber. Screen to parlour end, studs chamfered with mason's mitres, and step stops
low down. Fireplace: chamfered timber lintel, and stone back with various alcoves.
Axial beam with pyramid stops. Hall ceiling 12" above floor level of adjacent
rooms.
Roof: 2 jointed crucks with trenched purlins; apexes morticed and side pegged;
left-hand end hip cruck. Entire higher end smoke blackened. Later roof over the
whole.

Listing NGR: SX9799098032

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618378

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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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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)