Moat Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Constructed in the 14th or 15th century, it was remodelled in the 17th century with later additions and alterations. The house is built with rendered and painted brick, concealing a timber frame, and sits upon a chamfered sandstone plinth, seven courses high. It has slate roofs. Originally likely fortified, the house now consists of a hall range with a cross-wing projecting to the north-east; a timber-framed gatehouse, formerly attached to the front, was demolished around 1950. The south side has a cellar and two storeys. The north side features an irregular arrangement of windows; late 19th-century casements are located beneath the eaves, with three directly below, the left one blocked. There are two ground-floor windows with segmental heads on the left and right. One window is on each floor to the left side of the cross-wing. A roughly central entrance to the hall range has a plank door, likely from the 17th century, beneath a late 19th-century gabled porch. Another entrance is through a 20th-century lean-to porch in the angle between the hall and cross wing. A red brick ridge stack sits directly above the central entrance to the hall, with another axial red brick ridge stack to the right, at the junction of the hall and cross-wing. A mid-20th century extension to the front of the cross-wing (partly on the site of the gatehouse) rests on the original sandstone plinth. A Salop Fire Insurance plate is positioned above the central entrance to the hall range, numbered 2138. Inside, the room to the left of the hall stack has a richly moulded cross-beam ceiling with a carved Tudor rose boss at the centre and 17th-century oak panelling to the right-hand wall, featuring elaborately carved round-arched overmantel above a 20th-century brick fireplace. The room to the right has two chamfered cross beams with heavy joists.