Moor Hall

House. Dating to around 1600, it was altered probably in the early 18th century and restored in the late 19th century. The house is constructed of painted sandstone and brick, with remnants of a timber frame, and has a slate roof. The main part of the house is of stone and has an H-shaped plan. It has two storeys with an attic. Each cross-wing features a five-light mullioned window, added in the late 19th century, on the ground floor, two sash windows with no glazing bars on the first floor, and a six-pane sash window to the attic. The recessed central section has two bays. The left-hand bay contains a two-storey canted bay window, mullioned on the ground floor and sashed with no glazing bars above. To the right is a gabled two-storey porch with a 19th-century Tudor-arched doorway. Above the doorway is an inscribed tablet, said to date from 1566, bearing a shield and the initials of Peter Stanley. To the right of the main building is a one-bay link to a lower gabled kitchen wing. This wing is of painted brick, concealing the remains of a timber frame, and has casement windows. Chimneys are located to the right and left of the cross-wings, to the right of the kitchen wing, and at the rear of the hall. Some original mullioned windows are present at the rear.

Inside, at each end of the cross-passage are re-hung studded doors, featuring moulded ribs and strap hinges. The entrance hall contains elaborate 17th-century panelling, with carved grotesque figures, angels, and foliage, likely brought from elsewhere and reconstructed in the late 19th century. The hall to the left is lined mostly with 18th-century raised and fielded panelling and has an overmantel constructed partly from woodwork dating to around 1600, above a stone fireplace with a Tudor arch. The exposed ceiling joists are stop-chamfered with run-out stops. The left-hand (west) cross-wing has a dado of bolection-moulded panels. A closed-well staircase has similar panels and newels with sunken moulded panels, likely dating to around 1700. On the first floor, wallposts forming part of the timber frame of the kitchen wing are visible at the junction between the gabled wing and the link, which was also timber-framed. The attic over the main part of the house has closely-spaced trusses with raking struts and king posts, many of which have been cut through to form a passage. The rear gable of the right-hand (east) cross-wing has a closed fishbone king-post truss, now re-faced with a 19th-century copy on the outside. Redundant windbrace mortises suggest that all the gables had exposed decorative trusses, now replaced by stone and brick.