Moorcroft

1. 5018 HARLINGTON ROAD (West Side) COLHAM GREEN Moorcroft TQ 0781 26/159 II GV 2. Now an old people's home and special school. Large rambling mansion of different periods. The original house is a 3-storey 7-bay early C18 building of brick, now painted. Brick bands at 1st and 2nd floors. Stone frieze, cornice and blocking course. Upper floor may be later. Sash windows with glazing bars in box frames, those on 1st and 2nd floor under shallow segmental brick arches. Modern central door flanked by half-columns but entablature missing. To west of this a 3-Storey, 4-bay early-mid C19 wing of painted brick with hipped slate roof. Segmental brick arches to sash windows with glazing bars. Further similar large additions on west front which is of 5 sections in different planes, 12 windows in all. The 2nd and 4th sections have parapets and the 4th is of 2 storeys only. Doric porch in 2nd section. Similar wing to east of old block; and to south-east a 2-storey, stuccoed Victorian wing of 6 irregular bays with hipped slate roof.

Moorcroft, the Wall to South, House to North-East, Stable and Coachhouse to North and Vine Cottage form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ0767781618