Description

CRETINGHAM (Off) SWAN LANE
TM 26 SW
1/50 Moat Farmhouse
16/3/66
- II

Farmhouse. Dated to gable bressumer 1602. Timber frame with colourwashed
render and brick with a pantile roof, originally thatched. Two storeys
with attic. Entrance front: projecting later wing at right with a hipped
roof which has to its left flank a 4-light window at right and a C20 single
light placed in an earlier opening at left. To the first floor at right is
a 3-light C19 casement and to left a 2-light C20 window. The axial range
at left of this has decorative pargetting with a C19 half-glazed door at
near centre beneath the ridge stack. To right of this is a C20 window and
at left a similar. The first floor has two C20 windows in earlier
openings. To the ridge at left is a chimney stack with rectangular base
and sawtooth flues. The left hand gable end has C19 French windows to the
ground floor and a central light to the first floor with a 3-light window
at either side to the upper wall with ovolo-moulded surround and mullions.
Decoratively carved brackets at either side support the jettied gable which
has a decoratively carved bressumer incorporating an attached timber plate
which bears the initials I E and the date 1602 twice. Two-light C19 or C20
attic window. The left hand side has the later timber-framed wing at left
which has two 3-light ground floor windows and a 2-light and a 3-light
window to the first floor. The gable end at right of this has a C20
single-flue stack at right with offsets and at left of this a sash window
of 3 x 3 panes and a C19 casement to the gable. Rear: doorway at right of
centre beneath the stack. At right of this is a C20 window and to left 2
similar windows. At first floor level is a C20 window at left and to left
of centre a C19 sash window of 3 x 2 panes. Above the door is a 3-light
window with ovolo-moulded mullions and surround.
Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: TM2353161375

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26281607

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)