Moor Hall

SO 97 NW BELBROUGHTON CP MOOR HALL DRIVE (east side)

6/45 Moor Hall (Formerly listed as 23.4.52 Moor Hall Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. c1680 on old site with mid-C19 alterations and additions. Handmade brick on chamfered sandstone base, partly rendered; plain tiled roof with external end chimneys (left chimney is large and has offsets). Two storeys, attic and cellar; two-course band between main storeys which continues around left chimney; cogged eaves cornice. Three bays; windows are C19 insertions with cambered heads and 16-pane sashes; the ground floor windows break through the two-course band; the central first floor window has been blocked. Central entrance has a sandstone lintel and brick pilasters on pedestals; there is a moulded flat canopy on timber posts and the doorway has a moulded architrave, panelled reveals and soffit and a 6-panelled door (the upper two panels are glazed). Above the entrance is a datestone with a cornice and a cable moulded surround inscribed with the following: "Non Domus/ Dominum/ sed Domi/ nus Domum/ Honestat/ I T E 1680'".: Above the datestone is a Birmingham fire insurance mark. Interior: some moulded ceiling beams. Otherwise remodelled in C19. There is a late C18 wing to rear left with decorative cogged courses at its gable end. C19 kitchen wing to rear right. The house is said to have belonged to the Tristram family. It stands on a moated site, part of which still survives to the south- west of the house. (VCH 3(i), p 11-12).

Listing NGR: SO9347578418