Moorland Close And Former Stables Adjoining

Moorland Close and the former stables adjoining are a farmhouse and stables dating from the mid-18th century, with an early 20th-century extension. The building features roughcast walls beneath a graduated greenslate roof with a right kneeler. The former stable has V-jointed quoins and an extension made of rendered brick. The structure is two storeys high with two bays, and there is a single-bay extension on the left under a common roof. The right side has three lower bays for stables and a lower single-bay front extension.

The right two bays of the farmhouse include sash windows set in 18th-century stone surrounds, while the smaller left ground-floor window is located within a blocked 18th-century doorway. The left sash windows are in 20th-century stone surrounds designed to match the existing ones. A doorway behind the brick extension features a reused lintel inscribed and dated "I & AF 1700" (for Isaac and Ann Fletcher). The left return wall has a 20th-century doorway with a reused lintel also dated "I & AF 1700" and an open stone porch with a segmental hood, which was formerly on the front blocked doorway.

The former stables include a plank door beneath a loft doorway, and there are further left 20th-century doors, casement, and sash windows, all in 18th-century stone surrounds. The extension has plank doors and a rear opening that forms a dairy or porch. The front wall bears the inscription "MOORLAND CLOSE BIRTHPLACE OF FLETCHER CHRISTIAN, LEADER OF THE MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY 1789." This property was bequeathed by the Wyndham family to Queens College, Oxford. A 19th-century pencil drawing in Carlisle Library indicates that the inscriptions originated from the now-demolished original 17th-century farmhouse.