Moat Farmhouse

Moat Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. The house has three bays facing southwest and features an axial stack located to the left of the center. There is a rear wing added in 1986. The building has two storeys, with the ground floor containing two 19th-century and two 20th-century casement windows. On the first floor, there are two 20th-century casements and one small light. Access to the building is through a door in the rear wing.

Notable architectural features include shaped sprockets under the eaves and a diamond-shaped plaque on the front of the stack, outlined with blue bricks, inscribed 'O.S.O. 1870' (for Onley Savill Onley, né Harvey), along with four 19th-century octagonal shafts. The structure has jowled posts and primary straight bracing. In the left bay, there is a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists that are vertically sectioned and jointed to it with soffit tenons featuring diminished haunches. The middle and right bays contain a chamfered binding beam and re-used plain joists that are horizontally sectioned.

The second post from the left in the front wall has been severed approximately 2 meters from the ground. The stack incorporates some 16th or early 17th-century brickwork but has been reduced in depth and largely rebuilt in the 19th century. There is a small 19th-century hearth to the left and a large 20th-century hearth to the right. On the first floor, there is a small 19th-century cast iron grate in the left hearth, and another grate has been re-sited in the first floor of the 1986 extension. The frame of the building includes much re-used timber, with two diamond mortices and a shutter rebate in the front wallplate for a ventilated closet. The roof structure is mainly of clasped purlin construction, with some butt purlin elements, and there is an original infilled partition in the roof between the middle and right bays. The farmhouse is situated on a moated site.