Moorhouse

This is a late 18th-century cottage with an early 19th-century house, now combined into a single dwelling. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with stone slate and Welsh blue-slate roofs. The house, on the left side, is a double-depth plan with a symmetrical three-bay facade. The front door is framed by an architrave and a triangular pediment, with a glazed overlight above. The windows on each floor have plain stone surrounds and original 12-pane sashes with thin meeting rails. A moulded eaves cornice runs along the top of the house. The roof has two spans and retains original brick gable stacks on the front and a blue-slate gable stack at the rear. The cottage, to the right, is lower than the house and features quoins. The central doorway has plain stone surrounds, while the outer bays have smaller 12-pane sash windows. A brick gable stack is located on the right side of the cottage. The rear of the building was originally L-shaped, with a mid-20th century single-storey projecting wing added to the left and a lean-to connecting with the original rear cell of the house on the right. A further 20th-century stack is present. The left-hand return shows quoins between the rear and front cells. The rear elevation has a large 12-pane sash window with a plain surround and projecting sill on each floor. The right-hand return includes a sash window above an arch-headed window, where jambs were renewed during the addition of two sash windows to the right.

The interior was remodelled in 1978 by Francis Johnson, incorporating fine 18th-century woodwork from No. 12, Cluntergate, Horbury, which had been demolished by Robert Carr for the Nortons. The open stair-hall features an open-well staircase with a gun-barrel turned newel, finely-turned balusters (three to each riser), a swept handrail, a beam above the soffit decorated with a Greek-key pattern, and a carved wooden bracketed moulded ceiling cornice. The dining room contains a fireplace with a bolection-moulded surround, square Doric columns, a full frieze and entablature, and a casement-moulded cornice decorated with guttae. The sitting room has a fireplace with an architrave, impost, and dropped keystone, alongside a carved wooden dentil cornice. The drawing room was extended, incorporating Doric pilasters and an entablature. A finely-carved 18th-century style marble and wood fireplace, designed by Francis Johnson and executed by Dick Reid, is also present.