Moor Farm

Moor Farm is a farmhouse, now a house, with an attached barn, likely dating from the 17th century, with alterations and new windows added in the late 18th or early 19th century, and an 18th-century barn. It is constructed of coursed squared stone with a stone slate roof.

The main house is two storeys and three bays wide, with a two-storey rear outshut to the right. The front elevation has quoins. The window and door openings have plain stone surrounds, and the windows have flat-faced mullions. On the ground floor, a door is located to the right of a three-light window, and there are four- and three-light windows to the right of that. The first floor has three windows; the two left have a single mullion remaining. There are end stacks and a stack on the ridge between the second and third bays.

The barn, to the right, is of three plus one bays, set slightly forward. The main three bays have quoins, featuring a central round-arched cart entry with tiestones, a narrow window above, and square vents on the left. An additional bay sits to the right, without a roof at the time of resurvey.

To the rear of the house, the outshut has quoins, a three-light chamfered mullion window on the ground floor, and another window above, from which the mullions have been removed. 20th-century single-storey outshuts elsewhere are not considered to be of particular interest.

The barn’s rear elevation has a cart entry opposite the front and an upper window above it; a door is on the right, and a blocked mistal door is on the left. The left return (of the house) has a former first-floor taking-in door.

Evidence suggests that in the 19th century, a chemical works was located on the site, and dyeing may have been carried out previously. A dyehouse to the north-west appears to date to the early 18th century. An Ordnance Survey map from 1854 (6 inches to the mile, sheet 230) records the property.