The Moorings

The Moorings is an early 19th century house, originally a maltster’s house with maltings attached to the east. It is constructed of gault brick with a slate roof. The main block is two storeys and four bays. Ground floor north windows feature a 20th-century sash insertion, while one original south window and three first-floor sashes retain their glazing bars and flat rubbed brick arch heads. An off-axis entrance bay projects forward, featuring a first-floor sash with an arched head and switch tracery glazing bars, set within a rubbed brick arch. A painted stucco porch sits on a stone plinth, with two Doric columns and pilasters, a full entablature, and a parapet. The porch leads to a six-panel raised and fielded door with a moulded architrave. The brickwork incorporates a ground floor stone plinth, two first-floor platbands, and one eaves platband. A deep wooden eaves cornice is finished with painted dentils. A steeply pitched hipped roof is topped with two off-axis ridge stacks. A semi-circular bow projection with a single sash window is located on the south side. A two-storey service wing at the rear contains two 20th-century French doors, one two-light casement window, one 20th-century door, and one sash window with glazing bars. An east-facing elevation includes a four-panel Gothick door with a four-centred arch fanlight containing glazing bars. Five first-floor sashes with glazing bars are set within skew back rubbed brick arches, and there are three attic dormers. A pilaster strip at the east marks the junction with the former maltings range, which is not considered to be of special interest.