Moortown Barton Including Cider-House Attached At East End

Moortown Barton is a farmhouse with an attached cider-house, dating to the late 16th or early 17th century. It was extended in the 19th century and has undergone 20th-century alterations. The farmhouse is built of rendered stone rubble and cob, while the cider-house has a half-hipped slate roof, with a gable end to the left. The main farmhouse roof is half-hipped at the right end.

The building was originally planned with a 3-room-and-cross-passage layout, with a lower end to the right and an additional room at each end. A straight-run staircase is located to the left of the cross-passage. The hall has a rear lateral stack and an unheated inner room, beyond which is a large former kitchen containing the staircase in the rear right-hand corner; this kitchen likely dates to the 17th century. To the right of the cross-passage is a second kitchen, with an unheated service room added at the right end in the 19th century, suggesting the farmhouse was adapted to house two family units. The cider-house is set at a right angle to the front right end.

The exterior has a 4-window, 2-storey facade with 20th-century fenestration and two 20th-century doors, each with a timber canopy attached by brackets. The interior retains chamfered cross ceiling beams in the main ground floor rooms. The blocked-in hall fireplace has a chamfered timber lintel. A plank and muntin screen, with shallow hollow chamfered muntins and a peaked doorway, separates the hall and inner room. A chamfered timber lintel is visible to the fireplace in the former kitchen at the left end, which also features a large bread oven projection. A large lean-to projection, originally suggestive of corn-drying kilns, now has a gable entry following 20th-century alterations. Most of the 19th-century joinery remains. The cider-house retains its press. The roof structure of the main range was entirely replaced to accommodate a slate roof with straight principals.