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7 , DESCRIPTION 037 ( Check One) M Excellent ❑ Good ❑ Fair CONDITION CD Deteriorated ❑ Ruins ❑ Unexposed ( Check One) ( Check One) ❑ Altered Unaltered ❑ Moved CR Original Site OESCRIBE THE PRESENT ANO ORIGINAL ( if known) PHYSICAL. APPEARANCE Moorefields is a small Federal country house consisting of a two - story ide , with flanking one - bay wings . All three sec - central block , three bays wtions have- low brick foundations and are covered by molded weatherboards applied with rosehead nails . A molded cornice occurs under the slightly splayed eaves of the low gable roof of each section . The first level of the main ( south ) facade of the central block is pro - tected by a shed porch which has turned wooden posts and is enclosed by a replacement balustrade * The impression of the original molded hand rail is still visible on the pilasters at either end of the porch . The flush sheath ing under the porch is pierced by three openings . two narrow windows with heavy molded sills containing nine - over -nine sash and an entrance in the wes bay . The entrance originally contained an unusually tall six -panel door , in the twentieth century the two upper panels were cut off to pro - but early vide space for the present four -light transom . At the second level of the H main facade in the two outer bays are small six - over - six windows with louver d shutters . All other windows have the same treatment except those under the rn porches where the shutters are flat -paneled . M The wings are two bays deep and extend beyond the main block to the re , enclosing the sides of the * shed porch on this facade . This porch was also Z enclosed early in the twentieth century but all the original elements includup ing the chamfered wooden supports were left intact . -i The chimney placement , arranged to heat both the main block and wings C= with only two chimneys , reflects the side - hall plan of the main block . An n exterior brick chimney, located on the gable end of the west wing , heats only this wing while the other , placed at the junction of the main block and the east wing , serves both the parlor beside the hall and the a ast wing . There are no fireplaces on the second floor . O z Moorefields in a side hall with a large parlor to the east in the v+ main block and two rooms in each wing . In the hall is an interesting closed string stair that rises on the west wall and winds around the rear wall to _ the second level . Both the single stringer and the spandrel below are flat - paneled . The most remarkable feature of the stair is the fine Minese rChip - pendale balustrade with heavy molded handrail and square newel with molded cap . The parlor , finished with walls plastered above and below a molded chair rail , is dominated by the mantel in the center of the east wall . One of the earliest expressions of Federal design in Piedmont North 'Carolina , th i mantel consists of a molded architrave around the rectangular opening with slender reeded pilasters rising within the architrave and supporting unador d ' . end blocks . The outer molding of the architrave breaks out over the pilaste s to form caps . The end blocks flank a wide diagonally reeded frieze and, sup port a delicately molded shelf that breaks over the and blocks . The over- mantel consists of three ranges of three flat panels each aflanked by tall , ith caps formed by the heavy molded cornice which thin reeded pilasters w carries around the parlor . To the right of the mantel a low door leads int the south room of the west wing , which now serves as a dining room but was originally a bedroom . Both rooms in this wing , are heated by tiny corner fireplaces located in the northwest and southwest corners respectively . - -