Moor House Including Conservatory Adjoining South West

Moor House is a country house dated 1888, built for Samuel Bircham. It is constructed in Flemish bond red brick with freestone dressings, and has a plain tile roof with crow-step gable ends featuring corbelled kneelers and brick corbelled eaves. The chimneys have tall brick shafts with corbelled brick caps.

The building is designed in the Victorian Jacobean style and has an overall L-shaped plan. The main front range contains four rooms, including an entrance hall positioned left of centre, a room immediately to its right, and a large billiard room at the far right hand end with a large bay window to the front. To the left of the entrance hall is the drawing room, which extends into the service wing at the rear and has a tower over a porch on its left side. A conservatory is attached at right angles to the left side of the service wing.

The exterior is two storeys and attic with an asymmetrical five-bay south east front. Bays 1 and 3 have crow-stepped gabled projecting bays with terracotta finials. Bay 5 features a large two-storey canted bay window with an embattled parapet and a four-centred arch doorway in its left side. Bay 2 has a brick porch with an embattled parapet, a moulded four-centred arch doorway with a panelled door and shield dated 1888 above it. All large windows have stone mullion-transom frames, with bay 4 featuring a particularly large four by three-light window. The toplights of the windows contain stained glass.

The left hand return, or south west elevation, has a chimney stack with a window through the chimney breast to its right, and a tall tower to the right of centre over a porch with a four-centred arch doorway. The tower features a brick lumbard frieze and a lantern with a tiled pyramidal roof. To the left, the service wing has a stepped gable, and in the angle between them is a splayed two-storey bay with battlements. At the rear are stepped gables to the wings, and to the right a single storey outbuilding with an embattled parapet.

The conservatory attached to the south west side of the service wing has a wooden frame and glazing on a red brick plinth. It features three-centred arch lights with glazing bars and a taller central polygonal porch with stained glass toplights and a lantern with finials.

The interior remains largely unaltered and retains good features throughout. The entrance hall has a moulded arch screen to the staircase and gallery, both with Jacobean style arcaded balustrades. The ceiling is a moulded wooden rib design with painted plaster panels. The room to the right of the hall has painted panelling, a chimneypiece, and a moulded plaster ceiling.

The billiard room at the right hand end has a moulded plaster ribbed ceiling and a large mahogany chimneypiece with detached Ionic columns. The drawing room chimneypiece features painted decoration and a tiled grate, with an unusual feature of a window above it passing through the chimney breast, flanked by fluted pilasters. Much of the original joinery survives, including moulded and panelled doors, and the plaster ceiling cornices remain intact.

The Birchams were a prominent local family said to have also built The Olland (now demolished) and Dial House (grade II*) in the Market Place, Reepham.