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Detached two-bay three-storey former fortified house/tower house, built 1550, having a three-bay three-storey wing to the west end, built c.1720 and possibly containing earlier fabric, and a two-storey bowed extension to the east end, built c.1760. Now in use as a private dwelling. Pitched natural slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and paired or single timber sliding sash windows. Cut stone detailing, including a sheila-na-gig and cut stone surrounds with pointed-arched window openings (possibly taken from a medieval church site), to original castle. Base batter to castle walls. Round-headed doorcase to the north elevation of the wing to the west having a cut stone block-and-start doorcase with a timber panelled door having a spoke/radial fanlight over. Set back from road in mature grounds on a raised site to the centre of Moate with a collection of outbuildings to the east and the north, many ruinous and some containing the fabric of earlier buildings/outbuildings.
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