Moat House

Moat House is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 18th century, constructed using earlier materials. It features mottled pink-brown brick in Flemish bond and limestone blocks, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building has a two-cell direct-entry plan, with an added rear range and a wing at the rear left. It is two storeys high and has three first-floor windows. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door with an overlight, set in a 20th-century corniced doorcase, flanked by 20th-century bow windows. The windows are 20th-century sashes with cement lintels above. There are end stacks on the building.

At the rear, the rear range is rendered and has an old board door with iron fittings in a wooden frame to the right of a side-sliding sash window with glazing bars. To the left is a 16-pane sash window, and to the right is an unequally-hung 9-pane sash window. The roof is hipped on the right side. The rear of the wing features large limestone blocks with tumbling-in, indicating that the roof has been raised. The right return of the house shows large limestone blocks with tumbling-in to the gable, while the left return also has tumbling-in to the house gable. The wing is lower, rendered, and has 20th-century windows. A single-storey bay has been added to the left end, featuring a 20th-century door and windows with a pantile roof.

Inside, the partition walls are made of reused timber and wattle, with chamfered spine beams on both floors. The kitchen (back) door is ledged and battened on large 'T' hinges. There are probably 17th-century oak-panelled doors with butterfly and H-shaped hinges in the rooms, cupboards, and cellar on both floors. A dog-leg stair features splat balusters, a moulded handrail, and a newel post. The date 1762 was said by a former owner to have been inscribed on the chimney breast, but it is now covered. The principal rafter roof is made of reused timbers. A room added to the rear of the wing was originally a forge, which is now part of the house and retains a large flue inside.

The house is situated on a moated site where an earlier house, known as Old Hall, was rebuilt in 1406 but demolished by 1736. The stone and possibly the panelling in the current building were likely reused from the earlier structure.