Description

GOATHLAND MOORGATES
SE 89 NW
13/116 Moorgates Cottages and
attached yard walls
GV II
Pair of cottages. c.1845. By G.T.Andrews for the York and North Midland
Railway Company. Hammered sandstone with ashlar quoins and dressings, and
slate roof. 2-storey, 2-window front. Board door in gabled timber porch
to each cottage, with two 3-light casement windows between. Similar
2-light windows to gabled half dormers on first floor. Windows are in
quoined and chamfered openings with chamfered mullions. Plain lintels and
pointed relieving arches over ground floor openings. Overhanging eaves
and central ridge stack. Rear. 1 storey, with catslide roof. Yard wall
approximately 1.25 metre high raked up sloping ground to approximately
2.25 metres. Shaped coping. Cottages built originally for the Moorgates
level-crossing keepers and became obsolete with the opening of the Whitby
to Pickering Deviation Line, c.1865. Included for historic interest.

Listing NGR: SE8445699465

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26441670

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