Northmoor Cottage

Northmoor Cottage is a Grade II listed cottage dating from the mid to late 17th century, which was modernised around 1960. It is constructed of plastered stone rubble and features a stone rubble stack topped with 20th-century brick, along with a corrugated iron roof that was originally thatch. The cottage has a three-room plan and faces south-south-east. The original structure consists of a two-room section at the left (west) end, with a doorway leading directly into the larger left room that has a gable-end stack. To the right is a smaller unheated room, while the right end room, currently used as a kitchen, was created by converting a former byre outshot. It is unclear whether this byre was part of the original house or added later.

The cottage is two storeys high, with a single-storey sun lounge added to the left end around 1960. The exterior features a three-window front with 20th-century casements, some of which have glazing bars and others with applied leading. The left-hand section of the original house is symmetrical around a central doorway, which has a 19th-century gabled porch and a glazed 20th-century door. This main door is now disused, and a secondary door leading into the kitchen is currently in use. The roof is gable-ended.

Inside, the main room has a plain chamfered crossbeam, and the fireplace is made of stone rubble, featuring a soffit-chamfered and scroll-stopped oak lintel, with a blocked doorway for an oven at the back. The roof was not accessible during the survey, but the bases of straight principals visible on the first floor suggest the presence of original A-frame trusses.