Moss Farmhouse

Moss Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the late 17th century with an early addition and some alterations. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone rubble with quoins and features a slate roof with brick chimneys. The building has an unusual layout consisting of a one-bay baffle-entry main range with a rear wing, and an added two-bay crosswing on the right.

The farmhouse has two low storeys and a 1:1 window arrangement, including the projecting gabled wing. The main range features a chamfered plinth, a plain doorway to the left with a 20th-century studded door, and a five-light double-chamfered mullioned window to the right, which has a cavetto-moulded hoodmould. Above this window is a similar but slightly smaller five-light window. The left gable wall has a blocked round-headed fire-window towards the rear and two two-light mullioned windows above, both with straight dripbands. The rear wing has an inserted doorway, a three-light mullioned window to the left, and a formerly similar window above that now lacks the mullions.

On the re-entrant side of the wing, there is a three-light window at the first floor with cruder mullions, a formerly similar window at ground floor below it with 20th-century glazing and a simplified hoodmould, and an inserted window on each floor of the gable. The right-hand return side has a three-light mullioned window to the rear bay and an inserted doorway next to it. Both parts of the building have gable chimneys.

At the rear, the rear wing is back-to-earth at ground floor and features a two-light stair-window with a chamfered mullion and a simple label. Inside, the housepart includes an inglenook with a heck and chamfered bressumer, and an ovolo-moulded lateral beam. The east wing has two large crudely-chamfered lateral beams with cyma stops, and in the rear room, there is a large crudely shaped axial beam. The rear wing contains a doglegged staircase with a closed string, square newels, stout turned balusters, and a moulded handrail. At the first floor, the rear wing has a blocked cross-corner fireplace. Moss Farmhouse is part of an interesting group at Garnett Lees.