Moore Hall — MUCKLOON OR MOOREHALL

Detached five-bay (three-bay deep) three-storey over part raised basement country house, built 1792-5; dated 1795, on a symmetrical plan centred on single-bay full-height breakfront with prostyle tetrastyle Doric portico to ground floor; six-bay full-height rear (north) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Vacant, 1921. Burnt, 1923. Now in ruins. Hipped roof now missing with paired lichen-covered limestone ashlar central chimney stacks on axis with ridge having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots. Part ivy-covered fine roughcast walls on lichen-covered tooled cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on fine roughcast base with drag edged rusticated cut-limestone quoins to corners including drag edged rusticated cut-limestone quoins to corners (breakfront) supporting dragged cut-limestone ogee-detailed cornice on blind frieze below parapet centred on inscribed dragged limestone ashlar "die" date stone ("1795"). Round-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement behind prostyle tetrastyle Doric portico approached by flight of eleven benchmark-inscribed cut-limestone steps with dragged cut-ashlar columns having responsive pilasters supporting "Cavetto"-detailed cornice on roundel-detailed frieze below wrought iron parapet. "Venetian Window" (first floor) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone surround with pilasters supporting ogee-detailed cornice centred on archivolt. Square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (top floor) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone surround with stop fluted pilasters on fluted ogee consoles supporting "Cavetto" cornice. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed cut-limestone voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins including (ground floor): bow-ended central hall with central door openings in segmental-headed recesses retaining decorative plasterwork "fan vaulted" overpanels, and rosette-detailed dentilated plasterwork cornice to ceiling. Set in wooded grounds.