Moat Farm

Moat Farm is a farmhouse dating from the mid 17th century, with alterations made in the mid 19th century. It is constructed of red brick in English bond and features a steeply pitched pantile roof, which has a central clustered ridge stack and reduced tumbled gables. The building is designed in a T-plan and has two storeys with garrets, presenting a three-bay front. The central bay is advanced and has a separate gable that forms a two-storey porch.

The farmhouse has a deep plinth with a chamfered top and a brick band at the first floor level. The central door, which is contemporary to the building, features a deeply moulded lozenge design on the upper and lower panels and is framed by an architrave with shield-shaped stops. This door and its architrave were moved from inside the porch to their current position. The doorway has a semi-circular head with imposts, and the brick band curves over the arch. On either side of the door are 19th-century inset boot-scrapers. Above the door is a three-light sliding sash window, and to the left is a small semi-circular headed light. The porch is flanked by single margin lights on each floor.

At the rear of the farmhouse, there is an original three-light timber cross mullion window with leaded lights that illuminates the stairwell, as well as an 18th-century single-storey two-bay kitchen range with a brick-coped tumbled gable. The interior features a 17th-century staircase with square knopped newels and bulbous balusters, likely reset, along with a deeply moulded handrail and a chamfered beam in the kitchen. The original pegged, clasped purlin roof with a ridge piece is also preserved. The house is situated within an earlier moated enclosure.