The Moat House

The Moat House is a house dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century, originally an open hall house, with an eastern range and a 17th-century inserted floor. The southern range was added in the 19th century, and the building was renovated in the 20th century. It features a timber frame on a stuccoed brick sill, with exposed framing and plastered panels on the rear wall of the eastern range, while the rest is roughcast. The house has steep old red tile roofs and is designed in an L-plan, consisting of one and a half storeys on a moated site, facing east.

The southern end of the eastern front has a two-storey gabled crosswing from the 19th century, which includes two gabled dormers at the eaves of the hall range and two single-light windows below. There is a hooded recessed porch at the junction with the projecting southern crosswing, which features a window on each floor and a half-octagonal bay on its southern side. The windows are flush casement. Inside, the large internal northern gable chimney of the eastern range has two diagonal square shafts that have been rebuilt, while the internal chimney in the southern crosswing has three conjoined diagonal shafts.

The one and a half storey southern range extends to the west. The interior showcases exposed timbers in two and a half bays of the hall range, with the longer middle bay being the lower bay of the hall, separated by a full-height partition wall from the southern bay, which now includes an entrance and winding stair, possibly serving as a wide cross-passage bay. There is an arch-braced hollow chamfered open truss with queen-posts and arched braces to the collar. The centre of the tie-beam has been cut out and is used decoratively to the right of the fireplace on the ground floor. The narrow northern bay, which has an internal gable chimney, indicates a shortening of the upper bay of the hall. The roof structure features clasped purlins, with wind-braces cut out, jowled posts, a central post, and curved tension braces in the partition wall, while the floor is supported by an inserted chamfered axial beam. The chamfered and stopped joists have been reused in the 20th-century southern crosswing.