The Moot House

The Moot House is a house dating from the mid- to late 18th century, with some remains from the 17th century. It is constructed of rendered brick and has a slate roof. The building is two storeys tall with an attic and features a symmetrical facade that was added in the 18th century to an earlier structure. The facade includes one-bay pedimented cross-wings on either side of a recessed one-bay centre. The windows are sashed with glazing bars, and the wings have Venetian windows on the ground floor and tripartite windows with a sill band above. All windows feature columns as mullions and pilaster reveals, with fluted necking. The pediments contain Diocletian windows, with the right-hand one being blind as the pediment extends in front of the earlier roof line as a screen. In the centre of the first floor, there is a window with an architrave and round head. On the ground floor, the two wings are connected by a bowed porch supported by two columns, with engaged columns as responds. The door consists of nine raised and fielded panels, framed by a pilaster doorcase with a fanlight above a fluted frieze. There are chimneys on the left side and behind the ridge to the left of the right-hand wing. The rear wall features a Venetian window similar to those at the front. Inside, there is a dog-leg stair with three flights, an open string, stick balusters, and a swept handrail. The rear room of the right-hand wing contains a beam with chamfer stops of 17th-century style and a built-in cupboard from the same period.