Moor Crag

Moor Crag is a house dating from 1898 to 1900, designed by C.F.A. Voysey. It is considered one of Voysey’s finest works and among the most significant houses of its date in Europe. The house is roughcast with slate dressings and a hipped slate roof.

The north facade has two storeys and seven irregular bays, with a single-storey bay at the end. Certain bays project as gables, notably the sixth, which sweeps down over the seventh to reflect the hillside slope. Dripcourses are present above ground-floor windows in bays six and seven, and those on the first floor of bays one and six. The gables feature three sculpted slots beneath a dripstone. Wide eaves and moulded bargeboards are also visible. A raking buttress is situated to the left of the sixth bay. Windows are characterised by flat slate dressings and mullions, with leaded glazing containing rectangular quarries. The first bay on the ground floor features a canted bay window of 2+2+2 lights, topped with a cornice and a flat, lead-clad roof extending over a verandah. To the right of the verandah, the space contains timber posts on slate-coped walls and four steps. A single-light and a two-light window flank a half-glazed entrance door; a single light is located to the right of the verandah. The sixth bay has a 3+3-light window and the seventh a single light. The first floor is punctuated by a four-light window in the first bay, a two-light window flanked by single-light windows, three cross-mullion windows (two paired), and a full light with a transom to the right of the buttress. The sixth bay features a single light and a 3-light window. Lead downpipes are adorned with scrolled clasping supports, and a bootscraper with a tall handle sits by the steps.

The south facade, with five bays, features the first two bays as gabled with a left-swept roof, and the fifth as gabled. The third bay is a two-story canted bay window, with a top cornice and a later slate-hung apron. The roof of the fourth bay sweeps down over a verandah with trellis supports, extending to the right over the canted bay window. Dripcourses are present above windows in the first, second, and fifth bays. The first two bays have three-light windows. The canted bay window to the third bay includes a half-glazed door on its return side. The fourth bay features a four-light window with a round window to the left, and a three-light, flat-topped roof dormer with a cornice. The fifth bay has a four-light window to the first floor. An entrance is located at the left-hand end. A large stack, with distinctive tall pots, rises from the roof slope. A gutter downpipe is located to the left of the third bay.

The west facade is dominated by the roof slope, with two single-light windows flanking a round arch sheltering a recessed door with strap hinges - a similar door is present at the entrance on the right. A triangular dormer sits over the arch, and a higher three-light dormer is positioned to the left. A large stack with tall pots is at the top of the slope. The east facade presents a projecting lateral stack with tall pots in a gabled projection, flanking two-light windows.

The interior remains largely original, apparently including panelling, a staircase, and fireplaces, but was not inspected during the listing process.