Moorhead Cottages

Three cottages, originally a single house, date from the late Medieval period, likely of two bays with a crosswing. A ceiling was inserted in the 17th century, and a chimney added. The exterior was refaced with brick in the late 17th or early 18th century, and the windows were replaced in the 19th century. The construction is timberframed and clad in brickwork, set on a sandstone plinth. The roof is tiled, with a central brick chimney stack and an external brick stack to number 20. The cottages are two storeys high with three windows. There are 19th or 20th-century casement windows. Number 18 has a projecting gable with bargeboards. Number 20 has an external stack and a 19th-century extension to the rear. The ground floor windows have cambered tops with three-plank doors. Inside number 19, there is an early 17th-century fireplace with a wooden bressumer and a gabled spice hole. The inserted ceiling features chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and floor joists. A first-floor room also contains an early 17th-century brick fireplace with a cambered bressumer. Exposed timber framing with carpenter's marks and smoke-blackened rafters are visible in the roof.