Moat Farmhouse

Moat Farmhouse is a house dating from the 15th century, with alterations made in the late 17th century, specifically around 1688 as indicated by a date carved on the fireplace lintel. The structure is a three-cell open hall house, consisting of one-and-a-half storeys and attics. It is timber-framed and rendered, with weatherboarding on the gable. The roof is pantiled and features monopitch casement dormers, along with an axial chimney made of red brick that has two 20th-century square diagonally-set flues on a rendered base. The windows are 20th-century casements with leaded lights. There is a blocked lobby entrance doorway that has a canopy supported by brackets. Inside, the two-bay open hall includes a central truss with a strongly cambered arch-braced tie-beam. A diamond mullioned window is located at the right-hand end, which was originally under a hipped roof. The left-hand end features irregular unchamfered lodged floor joists and a formerly half-hipped gable, likely the parlour end. The two-flue chimney was probably inserted around 1688, coinciding with the addition of the first floor into the open hall.