Moat Farmhouse

Moat Farmhouse is a manor house dating from the 16th century and later. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has an H-plan layout, consisting of a 2-bay hall range aligned approximately north-south with an axial chimney stack at the south end, a 3-bay south crosswing with a chimney stack to the east, both from the 16th century, and a north crosswing, probably from the 18th century. The building faces west. There is a 16th-century extension at the rear of the south crosswing and an 18th-century extension at the rear of the hall range, along with a single-storey extension to the south from the 19th century. It has two storeys and a cellar.

The front elevation is finished in stucco to resemble stone blocks, featuring a central half-glazed door with marginal lights set in a simple early 19th-century doorcase with a shallow hood. There are two double-hung early 19th-century sash windows with 16 lights on the ground floor and three early 19th-century double-hung sash windows with 12 lights on the first floor, some of which contain crown glass.

Inside the hall range, there is a plain-chamfered axial beam and a large wood-burning hearth that has been converted into a cupboard. In the south crosswing, there are two moulded binding beams, and above on the first floor, there is a cambered early 17th-century inserted ceiling with plain-chamfered beams featuring lamb's tongue stops. The crownpost roof over the south wing has most collars present, but the crownposts and collar-purlin are missing. The remainder of the roof has not been examined.

The rear extension to the south wing has exposed joists with a horizontal section, jowled posts, cambered tiebeams with arched braces, and a blocked unglazed window with four diamond mullions still in place on the north side of the first floor. It also retains original rebated floorboards and traces of original pargetting, which are now enclosed in the 18th-century extension to the north. The farmhouse is situated on a moated site.