Moor House

HAREWOOD THE SQUARE SE3254 LS17 (north side, off) 14/154 Moor House 30.3.66

GV II

Formerly the Vicarage to Church of All Saints, now the Estate Office. Mid-late C18 by John Carr for Edwin Lascelles 1st Lord Harewood. Punch-dressed stone, ashlar dressings, Welsh blue-slate roof. Double-depth. 2 storeys, 5-bays. Symmetrical facade. Plinth, 1st-floor band. Central 3 bays break forward slightly under open triangular pediment. Central bay set within giant semicircular- arched recess: doorway approached up flight of 3 well-dressed steps, has monolithic jambs, consoles and cornice; overlight glazed as fanlight; flanked by narrow windows, cornice. Above, large Venetian window under ashlar arch. The recess has voussoirs aligned to the courses and breaks into the tympanum of the pediment. Other bays have sashes with glazing bars, slightly-projecting sills and wedge-shaped monolithic lintels cut with false voussoirs. Casement-moulded eaves cornice, deep ashlar parapet with coping. Hipped roof with 2 large stacks to rear pitch. Rear: quoins to outshut which has central doorway with 2-light and single-light window to left and single window to right. Lean-to roof. Main range has twin gables with windows to apexes, coped gables with kneelers and stacks. Left-hand return has window to left of canted ashlar bay window with casement-moulded cornice. 16-pane sash window above.

Interior: entrance-hall has doorways in architraves either side and semicircular arch with stair beyond: open-string ¾-turn stair with bracketed treads, simple stick balusters and wreathed-and-ramped handrail. Windows with raised-and-fielded panel shutters, casement-moulded ceiling cornices.

Listing NGR: SE3209045083