Moore Abbey

Detached three-bay single-storey estate worker’s house with half-dormer attic, dated 1905, retaining original fenestration with single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porch to centre. Gable-ended roof with slate (gabled to half-dormer attic window; lean-to to porch). Clay ridge tiles with finials to apexes. Red brick chimney stacks. Timber eaves and bargeboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Red brick dressings including quoins to corners. Red brick walls to porch. Rendered detailing to gable to half-dormer attic window with inscribed date stone. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Red brick block-and-start surrounds. 1/1 timber sash windows (paired to front (south-west) elevation). Timber casement windows to half-dormer attic window. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1980, with sidelights. Set back from road in grounds shared with Mooreabbey House.

This modest-scale house is of social and historic interest, having been built as an integral component of the Mooreabbey estate to accommodate an employee of the estate. The house is designed in a manner somewhat typical of Edwardian domestic architecture, and juxtaposes roughcast with red brick dressings to decorative effect. More apparent ornamentation includes the rendered date stone to the gabled half-dormer attic, while the finials to the roof are subtle features. The house has been well-maintained to present an early aspect and retains important original features including timber sash and casement fenestration, together with the materials to the roof. The house is a picturesque feature in the grounds, most notably from the avenue to south-west.