Moyles Court House Moyles Court School

SU 10 nNE ELLINGHAM, HARBRIDGE & IBSLEY ROCKFORD

5/7 Moyles Court House Moyles Court School 30.9.64 (formerly listed as Moyles II* Court)

Medium-sized country house, now school. Late C17, altered C19 & C20. Brick in English bond, some stone windows, old plain tile roof. H-plan of centre 7 bay, 2 storey and tall roof with attic block, to 2 bay at each end 2 storey and attic 2 bay wide wings, of 2 bay to front, and 1 bay to rear. Front has wide central 2/3- glazed in doorcase of architrave and panelled pilasters and moulded brackets to pediment. All windows in centre stone cruciform. 1st floor raised band that runs right round front. Wings have rusticated brick quoins. LH wing has painted cruciform windows and over blank panels painted as windows. On front 16-pane flush- frame sashes with wide glazing bars. To RH wing inner bay on side has painted windows on blind panels. 4-Pane flush-frame sashes on other bay and on front. Rubbed arches to wing windows. Heavy plaster cornice. 5 hip-roofed 2-light dormers to centre, and small similar on each wing. Roofs hipped. Arched-panel stacks in centre behind ridge, double one behind ridge at RH end, large square double one on LH wing and one on outside of RH window. For interior see Country Life; Vol 26; p 876-8. Was home of Lady Alice Lisle who was executed by Judge Jeffries for harbouring men of the Duke of Monmouth's army fleeing the country after Sedgemoor.

Listing NGR: SU1619008507