Moat House Farmhouse

Moat House Farmhouse is a house dating from the 15th century, featuring an open hall and a north-west cross-wing. A floor and stack were added in the late 16th century, and a south-east cross-wing was possibly added in the 17th century. The house underwent significant alterations in the 19th century. While the original timber frame may still exist in part beneath the pebbledash, it has likely been replaced by brick. The building has plain-tiled gable roofs with late 19th-century bargeboarding. The layout consists of a double-ended hall house with a cross-passage at the rear of the stack, and it has two storeys. There is a late 19th to early 20th-century gable dormer on the main range and a three-light wood casement window with a segmental arch at the ground floor. The late 19th to early 20th-century doorway features a half-glazed door, and similar window styles are present in the gables of the cross-wings.

Inside, there is evidence of the original open hall in the partition wall, which has large panels with tension bracing located between the former open hall and the north-west cross-wing. The roof truss associated with this wall is partly intact, and the upper half of the rafters has been incorporated into the 19th-century roof. This pair of rafters is well crafted, halved at the apex, and smoke blackened. The roof structure over the north-west cross-wing features through-purlins that are similar in style. A broad stop-chamfered main beam was inserted into the ground floor of the 15th-century open hall.