Moat Farmhouse

Moat Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a core dating from the 15th century, featuring alterations and enlargements from the 16th and 17th centuries. The building is primarily timber framed and plastered, with the right gable end made of colourwashed brick up to the eaves. It has a pantiled roof and consists of two storeys and an attic in a three-cell layout. The façade has three windows, which are 20th-century mullion and transom casements without glazing bars, along with an additional standard window on the ground floor. The entrance is a lobby with a 19th-century six-panel door, where the upper four panels are glazed, framed by an architrave and cornice. There is an internal stack with a rendered shaft.

Inside, the main structural members of the frame are visible, although much of the studding and joists are concealed. The 15th-century features include a moulded and embattled beam in the cross-passage and buttress-shafted wall posts that once supported the central truss over an open hall. A 16th-century plank and muntin screen is partly concealed, and there are several notable 16th- and 17th-century doors. In the hall and service cells on the first floor, the main posts have deep jowls facing towards the centre of each bay, with two pairs of posts having double jowls. This unusual arrangement appears to be from the 16th century and suggests there was once a three-span gabled roof or triple gablets. The current roof, which is of side purlin form, likely dates from the early 17th century when the stack and parlour cell were added. The roof over the hall includes a supporting structure reminiscent of a post mill trestle for a central post that once extended above the ridge. This feature, probably from the 17th century, may have supported a platform overlooking a system of fish ponds that once existed to the south.