Moor House Farmhouse

HOVINGHAM HOVINGHAM TO TERRINGTON SE 67 SE BANK ROAD (east side, off) 5/115 Moor House Farmhouse GV II House. Late C18 with earlier origins. Hammer-dressed limestone, Welsh slate roof. Probably 3-cell single-storey farmhouse, later substantially rebuilt as an eyecatcher. Gable end to garden. 3-storey central bay with flanking single-storey bays with attics beneath catslide roofs. Central bay breaks forward and is quoined. Band at ground-floor sill level is continuous to outer bays. Replacement 8-pane sash flanked by blind niches, with 8-pane sashes to outer bays. First floor: 8-pane sash flanked by blind niches, with oculi to outer bay attics. Second floor: 2-light Yorkshire sash flanked by blind niches. Rock-faced architraves to all windows except oculi. Gable coping and shaped kneelers to central bay and outer bays. Stacks rising through pitch of roof. Entrance to return wall. Interior: inglenook fireplace to southern room, with cambered bressumer and cupboard with butterfly hinges to left side. Stop-chamfered ceiling beam. Cupboards to west side of each room suggest position of original rear passage. Squat 4-fielded-panel doors on H-L hinges to ground and first floor. Northern room has keyed round-arched built-in corner cupboard with fielded-panels to door. Staircase: close string with column-on-vase square-knop balusters.

Listing NGR: SE6627073548