Site of medieval moat at Whitehouse Farm (EHER 7019)

Site of medieval moat, allegedly filled in in 1958. No trace of a building was seen when the site was bulldozed.

Monument description derived from merging EHER 7019 and 8513. Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: Moat at Whitehouse Farm. <1> June 1950. Field survey. Incomplete moat south-east of Whitehouse Farm, correct as shown on OS 6" 1950. No trace of north-west arm: moat dry when visited but is said to be water filled during wet weather. Condition, poor and overgrown. <2> July 1976. Field survey. Whitehouse Farm (name confirmed) is possibly 16th century, but much modernised and not outstanding. See photograph. The waterfilled moat shown on the OS 25" was filled in in 1958 according to the owner, Mr Basham of Paul's Hall. It now shows as a slight hollow in standing crops. No trace of a building was seen when the site was bulldozed. Published 1:2500 survey 1957, revised. <3> 1978. Field visit. Isolated position, in level country. Only two round ponds remain to the north of the present buildings (19th century - but see EHER 7020). An L-shaped pond south of the buildings has been filled within living memory and ploughed over. <4> Sketch plan on back MSRG card from 1885 OS map and site visit - shows two ponds and the filled L-shaped pond. A copy of this plan is also in the SMR. Another tracing (from 1885 OS map presumably) shows three arms of a moat, apparently on the site of the L-pond, also the two ponds north of the present buildings (not shown). <5> - <7>