Moorgates Cottages And Attached Yard Walls

Moorgates Cottages and attached yard walls are a pair of cottages built around 1845 by G.T. Andrews for the York and North Midland Railway Company. They are constructed from hammered sandstone with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with a slate roof. The cottages are two stories high and feature a two-window front. Each cottage has a board door located in a gabled timber porch, with two 3-light casement windows positioned between them. On the first floor, there are similar 2-light windows in gabled half dormers. The windows are set in quoined and chamfered openings, with chamfered mullions, plain lintels, and pointed relieving arches above the ground floor openings. The cottages have overhanging eaves and a central ridge stack. At the rear, there is a single-story section with a catslide roof. The attached yard wall is approximately 1.25 meters high, sloping up to about 2.25 meters, with shaped coping. These cottages were originally built for the keepers of the Moorgates level crossing but became obsolete with the opening of the Whitby to Pickering Deviation Line around 1865. They are included for their historic interest.