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13 <br /> United States Department of the Interior <br /> National Park Service/National Register of Historic Places Registration Form <br /> NPS Form 10-900 OMB Control No.1024-0018 <br /> Moorefields (Additional Documentation) Orange County, N.C. <br /> fName of Property County and State <br /> t E_ <br /> TOW <br /> F - <br /> .,errs srr�n' <br /> Figure 4:North and east elevations of Moorefields,showing port cochere and side entry, 1968.HABS NC-271. <br /> Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <br /> The east (side) elevation is punctuated by two double-hung, six-over-nine sash windows on the <br /> ground floor. As late as 1972, the northernmost window was an exterior doorway with stairs that <br /> connected the northeast chamber to the kitchen yard(Figure 4). It was converted into a window in <br /> the late 20th century. The second story has only one window,in the southeast corner. It is a double- <br /> hung, six-over-nine sash window. None of the windows on this elevation have shutters. At the <br /> ridge line of the east wing's side-gable roof, the uppermost portion of an interior chimney rises, <br /> off-centered from(slightly north of)the main-core's roof's ridgeline. The brick chimney is laid in <br /> a common bond pattern, as it was replaced in the early 1980s. <br /> The west (side) elevation is almost a mirror image of the east (side) elevation, the primary <br /> difference that the chimney is an exterior end chimney, entirely exposed from foundation to top. <br /> Again, the brick bonding pattern, the use of Portland cement for mortar, and the concrete <br /> foundation of the chimney suggest it was rebuilt in the 20th century. A photograph taken in 1968 <br /> shows that Draper-Savage had parged the chimney base up to the chimney shoulders in order to <br /> espalier English ivy (Figure 5). The parge and the ivy were removed by 1983, at which time the <br /> chimney's brickwork was likely repaired or replaced. Like the east(side) elevation, the first-story <br /> has two windows flanking the chimney stack, both double-hung, six-over-nine sash, while the <br /> upper floor has one window in the southwest corner, also a double-hung, six-over-nine sash. <br /> Section 7 page 11 <br />