The Moorlands

The Moorlands is a farmhouse, later adapted as a house, dating back to 1615 with substantial remodelling around the 1880s and further alterations in the mid-20th century. It is constructed of timber framing with rendered infill, some brick replacement walling, and has a plain tiled roof with two 19th-century brick stacks. The building’s plan is based on parallel three-bay ranges, aligned east/west. The northernmost range represents the remaining 17th-century solar of an earlier house, which was replaced by the southernmost range in the 19th century. A small porch wing was added to the centre of the west front elevation. The house has two storeys, a cellar, and an attic. The attic storey of the 17th-century section features a row of three gables facing north, adorned with moulded bargeboards and finials. The 19th-century section has a dentilled eaves cornice.

The north elevation has upper floors slightly jettied on moulded bressummers. The first floor features a row of closely-set vertical studs. The attic gables have herringbone panels beneath the windows, with each gable containing a collar and tie-beam truss with two struts and decorative infill panels. The west gable end showcases two main rows and an additional smaller row of panels at first-floor level, along with a collar and tie-beam truss with two collars and three and two struts to the lower and upper collars respectively.

The west front's 17th-century gable end has two ground-floor cross casements, while the 19th-century gable end has a 3-light ground-floor and first-floor casement; all windows have cambered heads. The central gabled two-storey porch has an off-set ground floor and a timber-framed first floor with decorative framing in the gable, moulded bargeboards, and a finial. The 20th-century door and 2-light casements in the ground floor side elevations, and the first-floor casement, all have cambered heads. The north elevation contains three 5-light 20th-century mullioned and transomed windows on the first floor, and three similar mullioned windows to the attic gables, creating a continuous gallery on both storeys. The south gable displays the date "1615".

Internally, some of the timber framing of the gables has been replaced. A large fireplace is located in the west bay of the 17th-century part. The house was historically part of the Vernon Estate and the surviving timber-framed section suggests it was originally a house of considerable local importance.