Moorcott

Moorcott is a house, likely dating from a late 17th-century remodelling of an earlier building, with 19th-century alterations. It is constructed of colourwashed stone rubble with a slate roof, featuring gabled ends. The stack arrangements are gable-ended at both ends and lateral at the rear, with later rendered shafts. The original layout probably included a through passage between the left-hand and central rooms, with the left-hand room likely serving as a parlour and the central room as a hall or kitchen. The right-hand room may have initially been an inner room in a traditional three-room plan. A doorway now allows direct access from the front porch into the right-hand room. There is an outshut at the right-hand end and a small, late-20th-century outshut behind the left-hand end room. The front elevation has two storeys and an asymmetrical four-window arrangement, with mostly 2- and 3-light casement windows, many of which are 20th-century replacements. Several 19th-century 3-light casements are on the first floor to the right, and a small, late 18th or early 19th-century window with leaded panes is positioned to the right of the left-hand doorway. The ground floor windows have slate cills. The doorway to the left of centre has a 20th-century porch with a hipped slate roof, and a larger 19th-century hipped-roof lean-to porch/outshut is at the right-hand end of the front. The rear elevation includes a slightly projecting gable, with a further projection to the left that may have been a newel stair, and a small 20th-century outshut. The centre (hall) and right-hand rooms were briefly inspected internally. The hall features roughly chamfered cross-beams with run-out stops, and a rear lateral fireplace with a timber lintel, also chamfered with run-out stops and stone rubble jambs. The roof structure was not examined.