Moze Hall and attached front wall and railings (EHER 34518)

A house dated to the 15th century with later alterations and additions. It is timber framed and it has an 18th century red brick faced ground floor. Moze Hall is one of the four manors of Ardleigh, and is sometimes known as More Hall.

A house dated to the 15th century with later alterations and additions. It is timber framed and it has an 18th century red brick faced ground floor and first floor of centre range, this with dentilled eaves cornice, plastered first floors to crosswings. It has a red plain tiled roof. It is a hall house with right and left gabled crosswings, chimney stacks to right and left returns and rear of central range. The crosswings were originally jettied. Later rear ranges included a stair turret by the rear chimney stack. There is a Sun Insurance plaque to the first floor. There is a single storey right lean-to. Internally the hall has an inserted ceiling. There is a large 16th century inglenook fireplace with three rear niches with concave head angles. It has a heavy ceiling and bridging joists and original boards to inserted ceiling. There is a doorway with a square head and a second blocked doorway. Moulded ceiling beams to one room. Original mullions to cross transom windows. Stair turret to side of inglenook, stairs with turned balusters. Most of the first floor frame is covered but visible features are jowled storey posts, halved and bridled top plate scarf and square plan crown post base supported by a tie beam which was formerly arch braced, the crown post arms now hidden by a ceiling. The rafters are sooted. There are the original vertically boarded doors and a 17th century panelled door. There is a rear, late 18th century kitchen range has a brick fireplace with mantel beam of re-used medieval timber, brick floor. The front wall of red brick extends from the left of the left crosswing to the west and turns south to enclose the front garden where the cast iron 19th century railings with ornate arrow heads are supported on a low brick plinth. Moze Hall is one of the four manors of Ardleigh, and is sometimes known as More Hall. Philips Bromley, Yeoman lived here 1796. The farm has been surveyed by 3 map-makers, Samuel Cosin, 1636, William Kendall 1736 and Peter le Neve 1806. F.H. Erith "Ardleigh in 1796, 1978. <1> Photographs <2> Information from NRHE [TM 0345 2757] Moze Hall [T.I.] <3> Mose Hall was built in the 15th century with cross-wings at the N.E. and S.W. ends. <4> The Manor of Mose, otherwise Moose-hall, Moyes-hall, and More-hall. The mansion house stands nearly 2 miles S.W. of Ardleigh Church. <5> Moze Hall. 1/19. Grade III. Built in C.15, 2 storeys timber framed and plastered, the roofs tiled. The ground floor of the cross wings and main block is faced in red brick. <6> 'Moze Hall' (name confirmed). A farmhouse as described above, in fair condition. See G.P. AO/60/59/5 from N. <7>