The Moot Hall

The Moot Hall is a house and outbuildings located in Embleton Village, dating from the 17th century or earlier, with remodels in the late 18th century and an extension in the early 19th century. The house is rendered and cream-washed with cut dressings, while the outbuildings are constructed of whinstone rubble. The roofs are covered with 20th-century pantiles and feature older brick stacks.

The house has a T-plan layout, with outbuildings attached to the north-east corner of the rear wing and an additional early 19th-century north-west wing. The south elevation is two storeys high with three bays. It features a central 20th-century door within a gabled wood doorcase, and 12-pane sash windows with slightly projecting sills. The upper windows have thick glazing bars, and the gable coping is raised with end stacks. The left return includes a 20th-century glazed conservatory, with its right end wall being one metre thick, believed to be part of a former parish oven. The set-back left north-west wing leads to the end of the earlier rear wing, which holds a chamfered ground-floor window that is the end-light of a partially covered mullioned window.

On the right return, the gable end of the front block displays a small square chamfered light on the ground floor. The set-back right two-bay rear wing has two 12-pane sashes and a renewed four-light mullioned window on the first floor. The far right features a projecting outbuilding with a 12-pane sash and a four-pane casement.

Inside, there is a chamfered doorway from the 19th-century wing into the original rear wing, which holds a two-panel door with beaded panels; a similar door is found upstairs. The east bedroom has a fireplace with a flat four-centred chamfered surround, while the west bedroom features an 18th-century stone surround.

Historically, The Moot Hall is significant as the building where the king's court convened, and it is mentioned in several ancient documents, with records of its remodelling in 1586.