Moat Hall

Moat Hall is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with later additions and alterations. The building features a timber frame that is mostly concealed by red brick on the ground floor and roughcast above, topped with a plain tile roof. It is designed in an L-shape, with a hall that was formerly jettied to the east and a short cross-wing to the southwest that was later extended westward under a slightly lower roof. The house has two storeys and an attic, with close studding framing that is said to be exposed on the west wall of the cross-wing. The east front has three windows, featuring three-light mid-20th century wooden mullioned and transomed windows, along with a French window to the lower left and gabled dormers above in the roof slope. A central entrance is located under an open timber porch, and there are prominent axial red brick stacks in the roof slope to the right and another stack behind the ridge at the junction between the hall range and the cross-wing. The west wall of the cross-wing is said to have an original window on the ground floor and the brackets of an oriel window above.

Although the interior was not inspected, it is noted to have an original newel staircase beside the cross-wing stack. The ceiling beam in the hall features ovolo-moulded chamfer stops, and in the bedroom above, there is a plaster ceiling ornamented in relief with a central Tudor rose, bay trees, oak trees, vines, and fleurs-de-lys. The house was formerly surrounded by a circular moat. Access to the premises was not possible at the time of re-survey in January 1985.