Moorland View

Moorland View is a house that likely dates back to the early 17th century and may have originally been part of a larger house. It was probably remodeled in the mid to late 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed stone rubble and cob, with the first floor at the front refaced in stone rubble in the 20th century. It features some larger dressed stone quoins and 19th-century brick dressings, topped with a gable-ended asbestos-slate roof and brick stacks.

The house has a two-room central-entrance plan facing southeast. There is an external end stack for the larger principal room on the right and an integral end stack for the smaller room on the left. The original front doorway into the right-hand room was likely blocked when the current doorway was inserted in the 19th century. The rear wall has a cranked design.

The exterior is roughly symmetrical, with three windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor, featuring late 20th-century two-light wooden casements, with concrete lintels on the ground floor. The entrance has a roughly central mid-20th-century half-glazed door with a wooden lintel and a 19th-century gabled porch supported by shaped brackets. There is a blocked doorway to the right of the present door, indicated by straight joints. A central first-floor two-light wooden casement, likely from the 18th century, lights the top of the stairs at the rear.

Inside, the right-hand ground-floor room has a 17th-century ceiling frame with a chamfered cross beam and chamfered joists featuring jewelled and angled straight-cut stops. There is a large 17th-century open fireplace on the right with dressed sandstone jambs and a large wooden lintel. The left-hand ground-floor room also has a 17th-century ceiling frame, with a deep-chamfered cross beam and plain joists, and a 17th-century open stone fireplace on the left, featuring large dressed blocks on the right-hand jamb and a chamfered wooden lintel with run-out stops. A central 19th-century staircase is present, and there is a recess in the end wall of the right-hand bedroom, possibly a former window. The roof space was not inspected. At the time of the survey in October 1987, the house was undergoing building work.