The Moat Inn, 12 Donegore Hill, Muckamore, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 2HW

The Moat Inn is an early 19th-century former school, later converted to a public house and now a private residence. It has been substantially altered over a prolonged period.

The building is a two-storey structure with rendered walls and a slated roof, topped with red brick chimneys. The main entrance faces south. The south elevation is six windows wide at first-floor level. The walls are rendered with a dry dash of small stones, painted over, with slightly raised painted vertical end strips of smooth cement render. Similar plat bands run at cill level, plinth, and frieze. The square eaves course is supported on a small corbel table with a PVC gutter.

All windows are rectangular timber with two-pane fixed lights and two-pane top-hung vents, set in square moulded stucco surrounds with keystones. The ground floor contains three windows of similar design and three doorways. The main entrance door is flanked by fluted pilasters rising to an entablature, with a plaque inscribed "The Moat Inn" on the frieze. The main door itself is rectangular timber, glazed and panelled, with 19th-century ironwork knocker and handle. To the extreme left is a doorway containing a rectangular timber small-pane fixed light window in similar surrounds. To the right of that is a pair of double doors in rectangular timber with small panes and modern metal knob handles.

The left-hand gable of the main front block is blank with walls matching the main front, oversailing eaves with shaped brackets, and a turned wooden finial. The left-hand gable of the rear block is similar except for a first-floor window—a rectangular timber sliding sash with two-over-two panes and horns—and PVC downpipes. The rear elevation of the rear block is of basalt rubble with red brick dressings, roofed in natural slates to match the main section. Inner roof slopes of both blocks are covered in synthetic slates. The right-hand gable is blank, matching the main front walling, and includes a wall plaque at the apex inscribed "Guinness's Stout & Bass Beer. Best Brands of Whiskeys etc". A smaller gabled block extends to the rear with a blank gable to the right.

The building is situated on elevated ground in a very rural area, set back from a side road by a small front garden with gravel. Low rendered and painted front boundary walls enclose the property. The east gable faces the main road. Distant views extend southward over countryside, with a view of a church to the southwest.

The building appeared on the Ordnance Survey map of 1832 marked as a school house, and was shown as the Moat Tavern on the 1902 Ordnance Survey map. It now functions as a private house rather than a public house. The building lies within the area of historic monument ANT50:46.