The Moat

The Moat is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with extensions made in the 20th century. It features a roughcast timber frame and a hipped plain tile roof, with a gable end on the rear wing and a roughcast brick axial stack.

The building has a 3-room plan, with a parlour on the left (south) in a cross-wing that projects only at the rear, a central hall, and a smaller unheated room on the right (north) end, which now has a 19th-century stack on the north wall. A partition has been added at the back of the parlour to create a stairhall in the rear wing, and a single-storey outshut has been built behind the main part of the house.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical east front featuring a 1:3 window arrangement. There are large 20th-century three-light casements and a 20th-century gabled porch to the left of the centre. A 20th-century conservatory is located at the south end. The rear (west) side has a projecting gabled cross-wing on the right and a single-storey outshut on the left, both with 20th-century casements.

Inside, the hall displays exposed close studding, jowled posts, a chamfered rail, an ovolo-moulded axial beam with concave stops, and a rebuilt Tudor arch brick fireplace. The parlour in the left-hand (south) cross-wing features intersecting ceiling beams with roll-moulded arrises, a cyma-moulded cornice, a 20th-century fireplace, and 18th-century two-panel doors. A 20th-century staircase is located at the back of the cross-wing. The right-hand (north) room has exposed jowled posts, a chamfered wall-plate, tie beams, and chamfered axial beams. The original roof structure consists of a four-bay roof over the main range and a three-bay roof over the cross-wing, featuring large cambered collars, clasped side purlins, and curved wind-braces. The main stack has a fireplace with an unchamfered timber lintel, indicating that there were originally attic chambers.