Moorside Cottage

This is a late 17th-century house, altered since its original construction. It’s built of roughly shaped rubble stone, with a slate roof on the south side and modern tiles on the north. The original layout comprised two rooms, arranged in a two-cell plan. The house is two storeys high and has two bays, or sections, visible from the front. The windows originally had four lights (sections of glass separated by mullions), but now only two mullions remain in each ground-floor window, and one in each first-floor window. A blocked doorway is situated between the two bays. Chimneys are located at each end of the building. The left-hand gable has a coping (a capping of stone) with a kneeler (a shaped stone used for ease of access during roofing). A short section of drip course, a projecting moulding designed to direct rainwater, remains above each storey on the left side of the facade. The rear (north) side of the house has window surrounds that are rebated and chamfered, but without mullions. The ground floor inside contains no notable features.