Description

SE 55 NE OVERTON OVERTON ROAD (south side, off)

5/28 Moat House

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II

Farmhouse. Mid-late C18 using earlier materials. Mottled pink-brown brick in Flemish bond and limestone blocks brought to course with Welsh slate roof. 2-cell direct-entry plan with added rear range and wing to rear left. 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Central 6-panel door and overlight in C20 corniced doorcase flanked by C20 bow windows. C20 sashes with cement lintels above. End stacks. Rear: rear range rendered has old board door with iron fittings in wood frame to right of side-sliding sash with glazing bars. 16-pane sash above, to left, and unequally-hung 9-pane sash to right. Roof hipped on right. Rear of wing has large limestone blocks, tumbling-in and evidence of roof having been raised. Right return of house: large limestone blocks, tumbling-in to gable. Left return: tumbling-in to house gable. Wing lower and rendered with C20 windows. Stack to left end. Single-storey bay added to left end has C20 door and windows and pantile roof. Interior: partition walls of reused timber and wattle; chamfered spine-beams on both floors; kitchen (back) door ledged and battened on large 'T' hinges; probably C17 oak-panelled doors with butterfly and H-shaped hinges to rooms and cupboards on both floors and to cellar; dog-leg stair with splat balusters, moulded hand-rail and newel. The date 1762 said by a former owner to have been inscribed on chimney breast, but now covered (NYCVBSG Report). Principal rafter roof of reused timbers (NYCVGSG Report). Room added to rear of wing originally a forge (now part of house) and retains, inside, large flue. On a moated site on which an earlier house, Old Hall, was rebuilt in 1406 but demolished by 1736 (VCH, p 167). The stone and perhaps panelling, in the present building was probably reused from the earlier house.

NYCVBSG Report No 514. VCH II, pl67.

Listing NGR: SE5531155767

External Links

• Wikidata Q26485571

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)