Clacton-on-Sea: The Moot Hall

Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 29 Oct 2018

This house used to be Mannings Farmhouse in Hawstead near Bury St Edmunds but was moved here, lock stock and barrel, to Marine Parade in Clacton-on-Sea around 1911. Nonetheless it is a Grade II Listed Building and the Historic England website describes it thus:- "Late C15 and originally called Mannings Farmhouse, Hawstead, Bury St. Edmunds. Moved in its entirety and re-erected on its present site c.1911 under the direction of Messrs. Gill and Reigate of Oxford Street, London, architects, with the addition of the chimney stacks and some windows. Timber framed, vari-patterned red brick nogging infill. Red plain tiled roofs. Left and right external red brick chimney stacks each with 3 attached diagonal shafts, bands and capping, the rear stack with 2 similar shafts. T-plan, the rear wing with plaster infill. 2 storeys and attics. Jettied first floor and central feature gable with carved bressumers and carved bargeboards to gable. Close set heavy studding with diagonal halved braces and jowled storey posts. 6 light mullion window to gable. First floor central 5 light cross transom oriel with moulded head and soffit, right and left 4 light mullion windows. Ground floor, carved brackets to jetty. Left 6 light and right 4 light mullion and transom windows. Returns with smaller similar vari-light mullion windows. All windows square leaded, moulded mullions and transoms. Gabled porch and panelled door to rear right."

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