Nos 82-94 Moreton Cottages Including Front Garden Wall And Gate Piers

This is a block of seven former almshouses, built in 1857 to a unified design. They are constructed of coursed stone rubble in various shades of brown, with painted dressed stone quoins. The roofs are slate, originally with crested yellow ridge tiles, though some are now missing and replaced with red tiles. Slate has been renewed at number 84 (possibly using asbestos) and tarred at numbers 88 and 94, with the latter two having lost most of their ridge tiles. Fish-scale slating forms pent roofs over the ground-floor bays and a canopy. Rendered chimneys are located on the ridge between numbers 84-86, 86-88, 88-90, and 90-92, and on the end walls at numbers 82 and 94. The chimneys retain some six-sided pots with moulded caps. The architectural style is Picturesque Domestic Revival.

The building is two storeys high and has a seven-window frontage. The central and end houses are designed as gabled projections, while others have upper-storey windows that rise into small gables set above the eaves. A large, coved canopy shelters the ground-floor openings. Ground-floor windows are canted wooden bays with six-paned, two-light wooden casements facing forward and three-paned lights to the sides. Doorways and upper-storey windows have flat arches with rough stone voussoirs. Most doors have been replaced recently, but original plank doors remain at numbers 92 and 94, and in a disused doorway at number 88; the door at number 94 has non-functional strap-hinges, likely added later. Upper-storey windows have two-light wooden casements, each with three panes and margin panes. A blank square panel sits above the window in the central projection, while the end-projection windows have moulded circular panels in a similar position. Windows under the small gables have trefoil panels. All seven gables have moulded bargeboards.

The interior of the buildings has not been inspected. The front garden is enclosed by a stone rubble wall with flat slatestone coping and three symmetrically-placed flat buttresses. At each end are pairs of gate-piers constructed of stone rubble, topped with steeply-pitched gabled caps of a lighter stone resembling limestone. These were the new Buck Almshouses. The foundation stone was laid in June 1857. The composition is attractive and reflects the influence of early Domestic Revival architects.