Moditon

Moditon is a house with an attached pair of cottages, likely built in the early 19th century, with the cottages added in the mid-19th century and subsequent alterations. The house is constructed of slatestone rubble, rendered on the front, with brick dressings. The cottages are of painted slatestone rubble. It has a scantle slate roof with ridge tiles, partly slurried, and gable end stacks, with the shafts set diagonally on stacks of the main house.

The original front of the house, a two-room plan, now faces the right side; each room was originally heated by a gable end stack, with a porch later added in the angle to the main range, now the front entrance. A pair of one-room plan cottages are attached to the rear of the house, each with a gable end stack and paired central entrances. The cottages are styled in a Gothic manner.

The two-storey house is slightly forward of the cottages. It features a plain door with a segmental head, and a two-light casement window of the 20th century at ground and first floor to the left. A blind gable end of the main range is visible to the right. The cottages present a symmetrical three-window range on the left side. The first floor has three pointed arched windows with brick hood moulds and Gothic glazing bars. The ground floor has a central pair of plain doors under a timber lintel. A two-light, eight-pane casement with a brick segmental head is to the right, and a pointed arched window is to the left, which is now blocked with a small casement window inserted. The right side of the house features a central 20th-century porch on wooden piers with a plain door and a segmental head, plus two-light casement windows of the 20th century at ground and first floor. A first-floor fireplace projection is on the left side. The rear of the cottages is built into a bank, with a central first-floor door that is blocked and has a 20th-century window inserted. A single-storey lean-to is at the rear of the house’s addition. The interior has not been inspected.