Morley And Attached Outbuilding

Morley is a farmhouse that was later converted into two cottages for lime burners and is now a house. It dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century, was converted in the 19th century, and altered in the 20th century. The building features painted render over cob and has a slate roof that is hipped to the left. There is a large external stack on the left return, a 19th-century ridge stack to the left of the door, a truncated internal end stack to the right, and a rear lateral stack. The plan consists of three rooms with end stacks and a rear lateral hall stack, along with a 19th-century rear outshut.

The exterior is two storeys high with a cellar and has a three-window range. It includes a 19th-century enclosed gabled porch and 20th-century windows and door. Inside, there is a 19th-century six-bay tie-beam roof with pegged face-lapped collars. The ground floor has three chamfered crossbeams and evidence of former stairs to the right of the stack. A late 19th-century staircase leads to the rear. The ground floor features early 18th-century six-panel doors with raised and fielded panels, similar two-panel doors, and wide elm floorboards on the first floor. The central front room on the ground floor has an early 18th-century corner fireplace, which is now blocked. There are two-panel doors leading to triangular-plan cupboards on either side, flanking two panels that conceal the flue, forming a six-panel overmantel. Stone steps lead down to the cellar below the left end, which has a massive crossbeam morticed for joists supported by a granite pier to the left of the door and other later supports.

Attached to the right is a lower thatched barn, probably from the 18th century, which is half-hipped to the right return and has a five-bay pegged collar-truss roof. The wide opening at the front features three oak lintels pegged to the wall plate. At the rear, there is a Delabole-slated outshut with three doors, two of which are made of oak planks, and a Plymouth stone floor.