Moss Lane Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Built in the later 17th century, with additions around 1800 at both ends. Constructed of coursed squared sandstone with quoins, and random rubble with quoins, it has a stone slate roof with some blue slates on the front, and a ridge chimney made of handmade brick. The building follows a three-bay baffle-entry plan, incorporating a projecting porch, a shallow rear outshut extending from the first bay, a large loomshop added to the south (left) end, and a cartshed and stable at the north (right) end.

The two-storey facade has a plinth. A two-storey gabled porch, built of large dressed blocks at ground floor, sits in line with the ridge chimney, positioned between the second and third bays. The porch features a plain, square-headed outer door with a large rectangular lintel, and a peephole in each side wall. Above the door is a large, three-light chamfered flush mullion window. There are two windows on each floor to the left, and a single window at first floor to the right. All windows are slightly recessed within chamfered surrounds and contain three lights, except for the ground floor window of the middle bay, which has five lights. The ground-floor windows have cavetto-moulded mullions and saddle-bars, while the window to the right is similar but lacks the bars. The first-floor windows on the left have been altered to include sliding sashes with glazing bars; the four original mullions have been reused as curbstones for a flower bed. The right gable, beneath the cartshed, displays a blocked three-light mullioned window on each floor.

The rear elevation includes a door to the third bay, plus windows similar to those at the front. It has a five-light window and a two-light stairwindow in the outshut to the first bay, three-light windows and a vertical rectangular firewindow on each floor of the middle bay (the upper lights of which are largely blocked with wattle-and-daub), and a three-light window at ground floor of the third bay. The original axial rectangular brick chimney stack has panelled sides; a later chimney is located at the south gable.

The loomshop to the south end is two slightly lower storeys, with a door positioned at the junction, a row of five square windows at ground floor, two separate square windows at first floor, and six square, unglazed windows at the rear, some of which are blocked with brick and some feature a thin central mullion. A gable chimney is also present. The cartshed and stable to the north end has a segmental arch with a keystone (the arch springing from the house's wall) and a stable door to the right.

The interior retains a remarkable completeness of original features, including back-to-back inglenook fireplaces with ovolo-moulded bressumers, a stone heck, wattle-and-daub smoke hoods, post-and-rail timber-framed partition walls, a winder staircase, a large stone slab table (thought to be a curing or keeping stone) within the outshut, and two elaborately decorated 19th-century cast iron fireplaces.