Moat House Farmhouse

SHUSTOKE MOAT HOUSE LANE SP2390 (North side) 13/189 Moat House Farmhouse GV II House. Late C16. 1830 remodelling and alterations. Timber-framing to cross-wing with C19 red brick casing and rebuild of part of main range. Plain-tiled roof. Projecting side stack to cross-wing. Coursed and squared sandstone with moulded stone string and 3 detached red brick stacks set diagonally. Sundial incised in sandstone of chimney. Similar squared and coursed sandstone to stack to main range. Above the ridge it is of red brick. The sandstone forms part of the east wall of the main range. T-plan having cross-passage at rear of chimney in main range. Main range of 2 storeys. One flush frame small-pane casement and another of 3-lights at first floor. At ground floor doorway to cross-passage has boarded door with rectangular fanlight. 2 C19 wood casements under segmental arches, with small panes on either side of kitchen doorway. The cross-wing at the south end of 2 storeys and attic. Gable end has segmental header arches to a small pane wood casement to the attic and 2 slightly larger windows at first and ground floors. Interior: Main range. Inglenook hearth of early C17. Main beam has an ogee-moulding similar to that of Holliars Farmhouse, Church Road, Shustoke dated 1641 (q.v.). Off this room is the service end with partition wall. The cross-wing was probably a parlour cross-wing which remains from the original house on the site. The framing is visible internally. There is vertical studwork, with close centres of substantial scantling. The ground floor studs in the wall are double pegged. 2-bay plan with original substantial partition wall to the centre truss. Moulded main beams have similar ogee-moulding to that in main range and at Holliars Farmhouse (q.v.). Framing also visible at first floor. There is an original doorway, now blocked, in the partition wall at first floor. Through-purlin roof with two tiers of purlins, trenched over the backs of the principals. Wind bracing to lower tier. Tie beam has arch bracing and struts between collar and tie-beam. Jowled heads to main posts. A number of internal doors have strap hinges with fleur-de-lys ends. The house, which is on a moated site, was bought in late C17/early C18 by Thomas Huntbach for the purpose of endowing the school and hospital at Church End, Shustoke. (VCH: Warwickshire: Vol.IV) (Midland Counties Tribune: (March 22, 1935))

Listing NGR: SP2366290210