Building record 1231/1 - Farm building at Moat Farm

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58565 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farm building. Mid seventeenth century encased in late eighteenth century. Red English garden wall bond brick with slate roof. two storeys. Yard front: projecting plinth. One double twentieth century garage door to extreme left. Two nineteenth century stable doors and one undivided door all with flat lintels of headers. Six twentieth century windows to ground floor. Twentieth century external staircase to extreme right. Two square pitch holes with doors and one loading door to first floor and one door at top of stairs at right. Interior: Two pairs of full crucks, one with cambered tie beam (later) and collar (also later) and yoke. Principals to either side (now redundant due to raising of roof level) and diagonal struts linking crucks to principals. Spurs at level of present wall top supporting new principals. Other cruck truss has eighteenth century and nineteenth century tie beam. Collar above joined to a second flimsy collar by means of an equally slender central strut. Third collar above supporting crown post. Original principals in place with struts, at 45° linking these with the cruck blades. Spurs at level of wall top supporting new principals.