3 The Moor

3 The Moor is a house dating from the 16th century, with the eastern bay rebuilt in the mid-17th century and a rear wing with a stair added around 1700. It was restored around 1978. The building features a timber frame filled with red brick, with an 18th or 19th-century brick casing at the ground floor. It has steep old red tile roofs and a half-hip at the west. The house is 1.5 storeys tall and has two bays, facing north. The northern front includes two three-light flush casement windows and two two-light gabled dormers at the eaves. There is a large internal chimney on the west gable and a large external chimney on the east gable. The eastern bay was originally open to the roof as the hall of a medieval house, while the western bay serves as an inner room with a sunken floor level. It is likely that there was a service bay at the eastern end with an entrance passage next to the hall. A 17th-century eastern chimney was built backing onto the passage, and this bay was altered to two storeys. A western chimney stack and a separate stair were added in the late 18th century when the house was converted into two cottages. The wall frame is simple with straight angle braces, and there are quadrant wind-braces in the roof. The joists over the hall are beaded, while those in the inner (western) room are plain. There is a shutter groove on the southern wall in the hall.