Moor House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1955. Farmhouse.
Moor House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- riven-gravel-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Moor House Farmhouse, Ascot Road, Bray
- OS grid reference
- SU 892 783
- Coordinates
- 51.49685, -0.71575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moor House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building that originally served as two hall houses, dating from the early 14th century and early 15th century, with extensions from the 16th century and alterations made in the late 20th century. The structure features a timber frame with sections of brick and painted rendered infill, topped with old tile gabled roofs of varying heights. It has a U-shaped plan, consisting of four framed bays in the main section, with two additional two-framed bay projections on the north side and a brick and timber extension on the south.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has two chimneys, one of which has coupled diamond shafts and offsets on a rectangular base. The entrance front faces west and displays exposed timber framing with painted render infill. Windows from the 19th and 20th centuries are scattered throughout, featuring casement designs with glazing bars. On the right side of the entrance, there is a gable bay with a two-light window on the first floor and a three-light window on the ground floor. The left section includes two two-light windows on the first floor and one three-light window on the ground floor, accompanied by a 20th-century plank door and a hipped roof porch on the right. A 20th-century brick extension is set back on the right, featuring a gabled entrance porch and a plain door.
Inside, the timber frame is exposed, revealing a crown post collar roof in the two western framed bays, which includes two plain crown posts still braced to the collar purlin, although one crown post is missing and all are sooted. The eastern two framed bays of the roof are also sooted but feature a redundant crown post roof. A notable interior feature is an 18th-century corner cupboard in the living room, which has a moulded frame and scalloped shelves.
Local climate
Moor House Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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