[2] It was designed in the Tudor style, built in timber frame in-filled with wattle and daub and was completed around 1500.

On the ground floor, the first three bays from the west end featured round headed doorways which provided access to the original shop units.

His daughter, Isabel Harvey, married the local member of parliament, Humphrey Radcliffe, and in July 1553, he was granted ownership of the estate.

[5] The building was extended to the east by an extra bay later in the 16th century, and, around the same time, the wattle and daub was replaced by bricks.

[6] The moot hall was one of the venues at which the writer, John Bunyan, who was born in the village, developed his nonconformist ideas in the mid-17th century.