THE East Anglian offices of Jackson-Stops have hit the ground running with the launch onto the market of two enchanting moated houses, both set in tranquil private locations, unseen and undisturbed by the many visitors who come to lose themselves among the heathland, dunes and reed-beds of the region’s heritage coastlines.
According to its official list entry as a Scheduled Monument, Godwins Place, near the tiny East Suffolk village of Hoo in the picturesque Deben Valley, four miles north-west of Wickham Market and three miles south-west of Framlingham, is one of some 6,000 moated sites known in England, the majority of which were built between 1250 and 1350 and located in the central and eastern counties. Most moated sites were linked to aristocratic and seigneurial residences where the presence of
