Description

MOCCAS CP MOCCAS PARK
SO 34 SE
4/44 Estate building,
Home Farmhouse

GV II*

Estate building, incorporating workshops, cart house, stables and hay loft.
1783 - 1784, probably by Anthony Keck. Brick with ashlar dressings and
a graduated stone tile roof. A square plan block with central courtyard
aligned with main front to south-west. A further range extends to south-
east from the eastern corner. Main (south-west) front is symmetrical,
the side ranges gabled and slightly advanced, the central entrance advanced
with a pediment bearing a clock face, capped above by a hexagonal cupola
containing a bell. The entrance below has a semi-circular arch. Ranges
to each side of two storeys with three 6-pane sashes under segmental heads.
Below these are semi-circular headed recesses, the top filled by a lunette
window, the sills formed by a stone band. Rear of courtyard opposite
entrance has eight tall entrances with semi-circular arches and double
doors. Carriageway through the right-hand range leads out of yard, and
on the other side are stable entrances below segmental headed openings
of hay loft. Subsidiary range attached at this side has ten openings
with semi-elliptical arches below eight segmental headed openings to hay
loft. Right-hand end finished with a gable containing a small pigeon loft.
(Thompson, N: "Moccas Court, Herefordshire - I", Country Life, Vol 160,
p 1477, pl 10; 18.11.76).

Listing NGR: SO3585243414

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17537122

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]