| Description | Moorhouse, Warmfield cum Heath. 18th century house
'House and cottage, now one. Late C18 cottage, house c1800, mid C20 additions. Hammer dressed stone, stone slate and Welsh blue slate roofs. 2 storeys. House on left: double depth. 3 bay symmetrical facade. Doorway has architrave, triangular pediment and glazed overlight. Windows to each floor have flush plain stone surrounds and original 12 pane sashes with thin meeting rails. Moulded eaves cornice. 2 span roof with original brick gable stacks to front roof, rear roof blue slate. Cottage: 3 bays, lower than house. Quoins. Central doorway has plain stone surrounds. Outer bays have smaller 12 pane sash windows than house. Brick gable stack to right. Rear: originally L shaped. Mid C20 projecting single storey wing to left and lean to linking with original cell to rear of house on right. Added C20 stack. Gable stack to right. Left hand return has quoins between rear and front cells. Rear has large 12 pane sash window with plain surround and projecting sill to each floor. Right hand return: sash window with arch headed window above, the jambs renewed when addition to right with 2 sash windows was built in keeping.
Interior: remodelled in 1978 by Francis Johnson (architect, Bridlington) when much fine C18 woodwork from No 12, Cluntergate, Horbury (demolished) by Robert Carr for the Nortons was incorporated: open stair hall has open well stair, gun barrel turned newel, finely turned balusters, 3 to each riser, swept handrail; beam above the soffit decorated with Greek key pattern and carved wooden bracketed moulded ceiling cornice. Dining room: small fireplace with bolection moulded surround, square Doric columns, full frieze and entablature casement moulded cornice decorated with guttae. Sitting room has small fireplace with architrave, impost and dropped keystone; carved wooden dentil cornice. Drawing room extended reusing Doric pilasters and entablature; finely carved C18 style marble and wood fireplace (designed by Francis Johnson, executed by Dick Reid)'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 22/11/1966. Date amended 27/08/1986. Web site accessed 07/02/2014).
WYAAS archives hold a Historic building record relating to Heath House, Heath (Wakefield MDC (Planning/Conservation). Undated). The record contains a brief description and photocopies of photographic images of the house. |