Remains of Moat Hall
REMAINS OF MOAT HALL, HOLYWELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192575
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Moat Hall
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF MOAT HALL, HOLYWELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192575
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Moat Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF MOAT HALL, HOLYWELL LANE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF MOAT HALL, HOLYWELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Braithwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 53444 94373
Details
BRAITHWELL HOLYWELL LANE SK59SW (north side, off)
8/5 Remains of Moat Hall 27.5.53 (formerly listed as Moat Hall)
II
Ruins of a medieval house. c1430. For John Vyncent of Braithwell (Hey, p78). Magnesian limestone. Probably a 1st-floor hall house with cross-wing and service wing; an intact archway into the central cross-wing survives with the outline of the hall to left being defined by rubble walls which rise no more than 1 metre in height; service rooms on opposite side of passage are less clearly defined and have as yet to be fully excavated, a well and oven site are exposed. The arch is pointed and of 2 hollow-chamfered orders and has rebate to rear with draw-bar sockets. Occupies a moated site originally a grange of Lewes Priory (Sussex) but leased in 1427 to John Vyncent who was allowed to build 'a hall with room to the west end 32 feet long by 18 feet broad' (Hey op.cit). A series of 3 round-headed arches from the service wing was removed in 1939 and one survives at Lambcote Grange in Staintcn parish. C20 excavation (Green, p 233) recorded a site approximately 70 feet x 20 feet and attributed earlier dates to the building. D. Green 'The Moat Hall, Braithwell 'Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Soc, vol 5, 1938-43, p 233. D. Hey, The Making of South Yorkshire, 1979, pp 78-79. P.F. Ryder, Medieval Buildings of Yorkshire, 1982, p 84.
Listing NGR: SK5344494373
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334780
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hey, D, The Making of South Yorkshire, (1979), 78-79
Ryder, J, Medieval Buildings of Yorkshire, (1982), 84
Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society in Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society, Vol. 5, (1938-43), 233
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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