Moat House

Moat House is a hall house, likely a manor house, dating from around 1500, with alterations made in the 16th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed, with the ground floor walls faced in red brickwork laid in Flemish bond, while the upper walls are plastered. It has a roof covered with handmade red clay tiles. The structure features a 2-bay hall aligned approximately northwest-southeast, accompanied by a 3-bay parlour or solar crosswing to the southeast, which jetties to the southwest.

There is a late 16th-century axial chimney stack located northwest of the middle of the hall, and an external chimney stack on the southeast wall of the crosswing, built in English bond, which includes two bee boles under Tudor arched heads, also from the late 16th century. The building has single-storey lean-to extensions to the northeast, with roofs made of corrugated asbestos from the 20th century, and a bay window at the eastern corner, also from the 20th century.

The hall block is single-storey with attics, while the crosswing is two-storeys high. It features a bay window, a tiled gabled porch, and casement windows, all from the 20th century. A gabled dormer with a 20th-century casement window is present, along with a 20th-century casement window above the jetty. Some of the framing is exposed internally, with close-studded walls. The original partition between the northeast and middle bay of the crosswing extends from the ground to the roof and is also close-studded.

Both roofs are of crownpost construction, with the original hip at the northeast end of the crosswing open to the rafters. Side braces of the crownpost at the northwest end of the hall and inserted studding suggest that there was originally a third bay beyond, which served as a service end and is now missing. The floor of the crosswing features a binding beam with double ogee moulding and plain joists of horizontal section. An inserted floor in the hall has a transverse beam with double ogee moulding, while the axial beam is likely similar but has been damaged due to fire. The common joists, where visible, are of square section with hollow chamfers. Despite some fire damage limited to one lower bay of the hall, this house retains a remarkable number of original features of high quality. It is situated on a moated site.