Common Moor Farmhouse

Common Moor Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. It is constructed of plastered stone rubble, possibly with some cob, and features stone rubble stacks and chimney shafts. The roof is thatched, with corrugated iron covering the outshots.

The farmhouse has a three-room-and-through-passage plan and faces west. At the right (south) end is a small unheated inner room. Next to it is the hall, which has an axial stack backing onto the passage. The service end room at the left (north) end likely serves as the kitchen and has a gable-end stack. Although an internal inspection was not possible during the survey, it is believed that the house originated in the 16th century as some form of open hall house, possibly heated by an open hearth fire, with fireplaces and ceilings added in the late 16th and 17th centuries.

The exterior features irregular front fenestration, with four ground floor windows and two first floor half-dormer windows. These are casements, some with glazing bars and others with rectangular panes of leaded glass, which may date back to the 18th century. The passage front doorway is roughly central and contains a 19th-century plank door. The roof has a gable end on the left and is half-hipped on the right.

The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey, but the owner reports that it has seen little modernization in the 20th century and retains much of its 16th and 17th-century carpentry detail.