Moor Hayes

There was a dispute concerning this between his widow and the Moore family which resulted in a law suit heard by the Star Chamber, the record of which is held at the National Archives at Kew, summarised as follows:[29] The estate covered much of the unusually flat low ground of the basin of the River Culm, between various hilly regions of Devon.

It incorporates fragments of a medieval chapel, which identifies it as the residence of a family of high social status.

The entrance porch retains a (worn-away) sculpted heraldic shield in the apex, with a reset medieval arch probably taken from the chapel.

In the lower end room survives a fireplace with a decorative plaster overmantel displaying festoons and a central lion's head which could be late 16th century, now heavily painted.

In the stairwell window survive fragments of late 15th or early 16th century painted glass canopy work, probably from the chapel.

The gateway to the garden incorporates re-used medieval material including piers and finials with a lintel with composite roll and concave moulding.