Sloperton Cottage

Sloperton Cottage is an early 19th-century house, partly built of red brick and partly of rubble stone with red brick dressings, and covered by slate roofs. The main part of the house has a double valley roof with three shallow coped gables. The front facade has a three-window arrangement, featuring glazing bar windows with gauged brick heads and pointed tracery at the top of the panes. The outer windows have 16 panes, while the central windows on the first floor have 12 panes. A half-glazed door is set within a trellis porch with a tent roof. To the right of the main range is a section built of rubble stone with red brick dressings, believed to be the original cottage. The first floor of this section has nine-pane and paired nine-pane windows, while the ground floor contains a 12-pane window replacing a former door, and a 12-12-12-pane brick canted bay featuring a slate roof. Some windows have painted-on tracery at the top of the panes, similar to the original style. An external chimney stack is located at the east end. The cottage was the home of Thomas Moore (1779-1852), the Irish poet, from 1818 until his death in 1852. Moore used the "barrel-room" in the right-hand range as his study; this room has a curved ceiling.