Moor Park

A mid-Georgian villa of 2 storeys with basement, and highly distinctive for its square plan with round towers at the angles. Behind is an early C20 2-storey S wing facing the garden, and a 2-storey N wing with an entrance front on the E side, forming an L-plan with a yard on the W side. Pebble-dashed walls, the villa on a plinth of limewashed rubble stone. The villa has conical slate roofs above projecting eaves and plain cornice, the S wing has a gabled roof, the N wing a hipped roof. Horned sash windows throughout.

The villa has tall stacks rising from the centre of each elevation (replaced in brick to N and S sides). The entrance front faces E and is reached by flights of stone steps to L and R. Glazed double entrance doors have a 3-pane overlight, above which is a small sash window to the upper storey. The towers have triple sash windows beneath recessed blind round-headed arches, with a smaller window beneath the eaves and 2-light small-pane basement windows. The N elevation has small sashes in each storey, the S elevation has a round-headed niche in the lower storey. Beneath the steps on the E side is a basement entrance within a small walled yard with replaced gates. A central round-headed doorway has a replaced door, and is flanked by an inserted doorway L and window R. In the side walls of the yard are barrel-vaulted recesses.

The N wing entrance front has a 2-storey bow window with horned sashes set back from the angle to R. In the upper storey are 4 equally-placed sashes. In the lower storey is a porch offset to L with 2 pairs of Doric pilasters and double half-lit doors. To the R of the porch is a paired sash window, to L of porch 2 similar sash windows.

The garden front on the S side of the S wing has a central ridge stack and an external stack to the L gable end. Set back from the angle to L is a 2-storey bow window, R of which are 4 sash windows in the upper storey, a 12-pane window to L in the lower storey and a French door offset to L under a 3-pane overlight. Further R the lower storey is open fronted with a doorway under a 3-pane overlight flanked by oval windows.

The rear elevations of the S and N wings have sash windows and an added conservatory in the courtyard. The N wing has an advanced bay L of centre under a hipped roof with ridge stack, with added single-storey projections in front and to L, and an added C20 window in the upper storey.

Four main rooms occupy the round towers and are planned around a central spiral stair with wrought iron balusters, leading to a circular 1st-floor gallery. Original service rooms are in the basement.