Moat Farmhouse

Moat Farmhouse is a late 16th-century former farmhouse, situated within the remains of a rectangular moat that surrounds two sides of the building. The house is timber-framed and roughcast-rendered, with a clay pantile roof. It features an internal chimney stack with a rebuilt red brick shaft. The windows are three-light casements with transoms to the ground floor. A 20th-century enclosed and gabled porch with a mock Georgian door has been added.

The timber frame is arranged in five bays, including a chimney bay, and follows a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. Internally, original timbers are exposed. Notable features include full-height studs, reversed braces at the corners, and several blocked original windows. Some upper-floor windows retain housings for diamond mullions, and one doorway displays arched spandrels. Throughout the ground floor are plain beam-and-joist ceilings.

The partition wall dividing the service area has been replaced with brick, merging the two original service rooms into one. A blocked stair trap is present in one corner of this combined space. The chamber above the service rooms, likely originally used as a cheese chamber, was not accessible from the upper floor. The chimney stack contains back-to-back hearths with timber lintels on the ground floor, and a smaller fireplace with an arched brick surround in the parlour chamber. Upper-floor trusses display cranked arched braces and cambered tie-beams. The original attic space retains principals, two rows of butt purlins, and windbraces.