The Moat House

The Moat House is a former service building associated with a royal stud farm, now functioning as a detached house. It dates from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The structure features a mix of rubble and colourwashed brick with stone dressings, topped by a stone slate roof and rear brick stacks. It has a rectangular plan, with the original 17th-century section located to the west and a 19th-century addition at the eastern end.

The building is two stories high with an attic and has a three-window courtyard front. The windows on the left side are 19th-century casements with two and three lights, while the ground floor right features ovolo-moulded mullions. The attic windows are set beneath two gables that were added in the 19th century. There is an off-set plank door to the left, and the west end wall displays further mullioned windows along with a gabled porch that has another plank door. The original hipped roof at the west end has been altered by the addition of the 19th-century gables. A lean-to milking loggia supported by circular brick piers is present on the rear wall.

Inside, the house contains several chamfered beams and a rustic plaster motif on the ceiling of the central ground floor room. There is a plain 18th-century staircase featuring a mahogany handrail and square balusters, along with an original butt-purlin and a collar-beam roof structure that has undergone 19th-century modifications. The building is reputed to have served as a Quaker meeting house.