Description

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CHARLTON MUSGROVE CP
Moorhays Farmhouse

24.3.61

II

Farmhouse. c1600 and later. Local stone cut and squared with ashlar dressings; plain clay tile roof with coved East gable and hipped to West; brick and stone chimney stacks. 2 storeys with attic; 6 bays North elevation, with circular plan turret on North East corner having plain clay tile roof over stone slate base courses. String courses of 2 patterns, stepped in places: mostly wood or steel casement windows of C20 under exposed lintels, but in gables over bays 3 and 6 a blocked and a timber reserve-chamfered mullioned 2-light windows; C18 casements with leaded panes lower bay 4 and upper bay 6; cambered arched doorway bay-5 under C20 tiled hood; C20 stone tiled porch to bay 2; old pump in wood box between bays 3 and 4. On both gable ends are further reserve chamfered mullioned windows at each level, with 2 also in the West bay of South elevation, and one blocked in corner. Projecting extension on South West turner of late C18, with 12-pane sash windows below and 9-pane sashes above.
Interior not seen, but VAG report indicates much alteration and early plan confused; house may have been a manor originally (VAG Report, Unpublished SRO, February
1982).

Listing NGR: ST6993830147

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26594466

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)