Moor Mill Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating to the 17th century, it was modified in the early 18th century, with a datestone reading L/IM/1700 placed in the top left gable. The front of the side wings are constructed of random sarsen rubble with chalk ashlar bands and blocks, while the centre is of a later 18th century design. The rear is built with Flemish bond brick and squared and coursed chalk. The roof is thatched and has brick stacks. The house follows a three-unit lobby entry plan, with an early 18th century outshot to the rear right. It is a 1 1/2-storey building, with a three-window front. A late 20th-century gabled porch incorporates a late 18th-century flat hood with carved brackets, which originally covered a four-panelled door that has since been moved from its original position in the front wall. Windows include late 19th-century two, three and four-light casements; flat chalk arches with voussoirs to the left, timber lintels and segmental brick arches to the centre, and a timber lintel and segmental chalk arch with a dropped key to the right. The sarsen walling is arranged in squares and rectangles within the courses of the chalk ashlar, and the top right gable has sarsen infill to two diamond-shaped cut-chalk panels. The roof is gabled and half-hipped, with ridge stacks. The interior includes chamfered and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, wood bressumers over the original open fireplaces to the centre left and centre right, a chalk fireplace with chamfered surround to the first floor left, late 18th-century four-panelled doors, early 18th-century ribbed doors, and a late 17th/early 18th-century six-panelled double doors to the first floor right. The roof is a queen-strut roof with butt purlins over the central range. A one-bay late 18th/early 19th-century kitchen extension, of Flemish bond brick with a brick lateral stack and projecting bread oven, is located to the rear left. Timber-framed partitions and exposed timbers in the left wing are remnants of an earlier 17th-century phase of the house.