Moorparks

Moorparks is a small farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early 19th century, with minor alterations from the late 19th century. Originally shown on Ordnance Survey maps as Moorpark House, it is built of rendered stone rubble, with a scantle-slate roof and red brick end stacks. The house follows a two-room central entrance plan, with a central staircase and integral end stacks; the right-hand room is slightly larger. A wing extends at a right angle to the rear, with a mid-to-late 19th century replacement stack where an earlier corner stack would have stood.

The front façade is nearly symmetrical, featuring a plinth and end pilaster strips. It has early 19th century boxed 12-pane sash windows, although the right-hand ground-floor window was replaced in the mid-to-late 20th century. The central entrance has an early 19th century six-panelled door, with the lower two panels flush and beaded, and the upper four panels moulded and glazed, set within a beaded wooden frame. A late 19th century gabled porch with a plinth, round-arched entrance and chamfered scalloped bargeboards fronts the doorway. The rear wing features 19th-century two-light wooden casements.

Inside, there are four-panelled doors throughout, and in the right-hand ground-floor room, a fireplace is flanked by cupboards. The building is notable as a largely unaltered early 19th century smallholding house.