29, 29A, 31 AND 31A, MOOR STREET

This is a pair of shops with living quarters above, dating to the early 18th century and altered later. The building is located in Ormskirk and comprises two main sections arranged in a U-shape around a wagon entry, with the frontages perpendicular to the street. The front of numbers 29 and 31 are of 19th-century common brick in a Flemish bond pattern, while the sides are handmade red brick in an English garden wall bond. The roofs are slate-covered.

The building has two-and-a-half storeys, with two windows at the first floor and one additional window. Modern shop fronts are on the ground floor, centered by a basket-arched wagon entry with a gauged brick head. This entry has rectangular recesses for former double doors and a ceiling supported by four beams; the first beam has a keeled ovolo moulding, and the others have stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A cobbled and stone-flagged cart track leads through the entry. Number 29 has 12-pane, top-hung casement windows on the first and second floors; number 31 has a rendered front attempting to resemble half-timbering, with altered windows on each floor.

At the rear are short, gabled back extensions, which have been altered over time, along with 20th-century extensions beyond them. Number 29's rear extension has an extruded chimney stack with offsets on one side.

The interior of Number 29 features chamfered ceiling beams on the ground floor and a dog-legged staircase dating to the early 18th century between the first and second floors. The staircase has a closed string, turned balusters, square newels, and a moulded handrail. Both properties have roughly-hewn purlin roofs.

This building is believed to be the only remaining example of its type in the area.