Forestry Cottage, Moy Hall

Dating to circa 1860-70, these stables and cottages form a U-shaped arrangement, enclosing a courtyard on three sides, open to the south except for a low, coped enclosing wall. The buildings are asymmetrical in design and display Baronial detailing, including crowstepped gables, a circular turret with a conical slated cap in the northwest outer angle, corbelled angles, and a variety of gabled and pedimented dormer heads. The construction is of snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings, featuring timber sash windows with single plate-glass, four-pane, and eight-pane glazing patterns. Coped or crowstepped gables are accentuated by beaked skewputts, while coped ridge and end stacks are also present.

The western range was originally a cart-shed and stabling, later adapted for domestic use. The courtyard elevation exhibits four segmental cart-arch openings, now infilled with glazing, and a blocked rectangular entrance. A tall square stack has been added at wallhead above the right-hand cart-arch. Asymmetrical openings feature on the outer west elevation, including a bipartite window, a single window, a door, and two single windows, all of which are original openings. Two Velux rooflights are incorporated into the roof slope. The northwest and southwest angles are corbelled to form square projections two courses below the wallhead. A two-story circular stair turret, containing a masonry turnpike stair, is notable for its asymmetrical, glazed arrow-slot openings, a small glazed trefoil window at ground level, and a fish-scale slated conical cap at the outer angle, connecting the west and north ranges. An elaborate weather-vane sits at the apex.

The north range is divided into a three-bay, single-storey and attic domestic range to the west and a single-storey stabling range that continues around the corner to the east, linking to the right-hand (eastern) range; openings have been altered. A large horseshoe-shaped cavetto-moulded pend arch, now infilled and glazed with a bipartite window, is located at the center, featuring a heraldic device and flanking round-arched lights within a steep-pitched gable. Other openings were similarly altered around the late 19th century. A re-entrant (courtyard) angle provides access.

The rear (north) elevation presents a single-storey section to the left and a single-storey and attic section to the right. Ground-floor openings on the right have been altered to create smaller bipartites. A steep-pitched dormer gablehead is present to the left, with a small bipartite window, while a bipartite window and a steep-pitched pediment dormer-head are found to the right. Angles are corbelled to form square projections. The east gable end has an off-centre bipartite window and a glazed roundel at the apex.

The eastern range’s courtyard elevation features a door, a window, and a segmental-arched pedestrian pend located off-centre. Three blocked segmental arched cart-bays are situated in the outer bays. The south gable ends include a large garage slating and an original loft opening over. Three small cast-iron rooflights are integrated into the roof slope on the east side, and a tall stack addition sits above the wallhead on the east elevation, right of the pend. Stepped coped wing walls connect the east and west ranges to the south, incorporating the lower enclosing wall.