Estate Building, Home Farmhouse

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