A substantial group of ruined buildings located at the base of a marshy hollow adjacent to the embanked trackway crossing the moor. The main building is a long range aligned N-S, and comprising five rooms or compartments; at its downhill end is the original hearth-passage cottage with a wickerwork fireplace hood (supported by an inserted wall forming a short passageway beside the entrance). There are three windows in the west frontage, suggesting that it was originally divided into two rooms. The presumed inner room has a mural cupboard and a blocked first-floor window in the gable. The next compartment is an unheated room with a window, and also an upper floor. The next compartment was probably not domestic, as it had a wide doorway, later narrowed. Then there is a narrow passage (subsequently converted into another room of indeterminate purpose) that separated the house end of the range, from a cowshed or animal shelter. This is featureless apart from a window and three stone slab partitions presumably forming mangers.
A short distance to the south is a second house, set at right angles to the main range. This has a direct-entry plan, again with evidence of a wickerwork fireplace hood. There is an added room against the west end of the house, which has a mural cupboard but no other surviving features. This second house is not shown on the tithe map and was therefore built after 1844.
Information from Paul R Davis, December 2021.