Moat Hall

Moat Hall is a house dating from the early to mid-18th century, incorporating fabric from a 17th or earlier house, and altered in the late 18th century, late 19th century, and again in the 20th century. A portion of the original structure was timber-framed. The exterior is likely brick, but is now rendered and colour-washed. The front range has a pantile roof with a stone slate verge; other roof sections are slate-covered. Stacks are constructed of rendered or whitewashed brick. The house follows a central-entry plan with three parallel ranges. The front facade is two storeys high and has five windows. A fielded panelled front door, featuring two glazed lights, is set beneath a blocked radial fanlight within an open-pedimented doorcase with fluted pilaster jambs. Cross windows with small-pane casements are present throughout, with first-floor windows having cambered heads. Ground-floor windows retain fielded shutters. A modillion eaves cornice runs along the roofline. Stacks are located at the left end and centre right, with a third, larger stack rising at the rear of the central roof range. On the left return, an 18th-century square sundial is set into the wall at the junction of the front and middle ranges. On the right return, an original five-light mullioned and transomed window, on the ground floor of the middle range, has been altered to casements.

The interior features an open well staircase with a closed string, turned balusters, square newels, and a moulded handrail. In the front range, the ceiling and beams of the ground-floor left room are sunk-panelled within bolection-moulded surrounds. Fireplaces in the entrance hall and right end room of the middle range have moulded surrounds and moulded, stepped cornice shelves. Wall studding is visible in partition walls of the middle range, and a fine carved beam, possibly re-used, is found in the right end room of the middle range. Doors in the front range are of six raised and fielded panels, while a plank and batten cellar door sits beneath the stairs in the middle range. On the first floor, braced, jowled post timber-framing, wall plates, and some studding are exposed in the right end bay of the middle range. A 17th-century scratch-moulded panelled door has been re-used near the attic stairs. Ceilings and beams in the front range rooms and the left end room of the middle range are panelled to match the ground floor. The attic reveals two A-strutted king-post trusses in the middle roof range, one of which has been mutilated.