Moignes Court

Moignes Court is a moated house dating to the late 13th century, with alterations in the 16th century and additions around 1900. Coursed rubble walls are contrasted with stone quoins, and the roofs are slate with gable ends, including a gable to the south-west of 1900. Brick stacks rise from the ridge, north of the gable end, and centrally. A 13th-century stack embrasure remains on the west elevation, with weathering visible on the south face chimney.

The west front of the 13th-century block has two storeys and five windows. Ground-floor windows are three-light, with straight chamfered stone mullions; one is 16th century, the others have been replaced in the 19th century. The first floor has three 13th-century windows, each with two trefoiled lights and a quatrefoil in plate tracery under a two-centred head. The head and jambs are moulded and rebated, constructed from Purbeck stone, while the tracery is of Ham Hill stone. Internally, the windows feature attached shafts with moulded bases and capitals, carrying hollow chamfered rear arches, with the southernmost window having an internal moulded label. A shallow buttress-like projection of the wall lies below the middle window, likely originally supporting a hall fireplace. Casements with horizontal glazing-bars are from the 19th century. A single-stage buttress is present on the gabled north end, and the doorway is of 20th-century origin. The east wall of the 13th-century block has a ground-floor doorway that is not original, with a 19th-century arched head. A 13th-century doorway to the upper storey has been converted into a window, with a moulded two-centred arched head, continuous jambs, and a moulded label, the ends of which have been cut away. The depressed segmental rear arch is moulded and matches the rear arch of a doorway further north. Inside the 13th-century block, a cross wall on the ground floor is likely original. The room south of the cross wall probably functioned as a kitchen, and opposed doorways immediately north of the cross wall may indicate a through passage, running under the south end of the hall.

A south cross range, built around 1903, is two and a half storeys, with two windows in the west gabled wall, each consisting of two and three lights with straight chamfered stone mullions and 19th-century iron casements. A front-doorway on the left at ground level has moulded jambs and a four-centred head with a label above. The 20th-century glazed double leaf door leads into a hall with two 19th-century French windows. A north-east range, constructed around 1900, is of stone with a brick end wall and stack above two- and three-light 20th-century windows, with 20th-century doors.