Moor Park

Moor Park is a mid-18th century villa of two storeys with a basement, notable for its square plan with round towers at the corners. Behind the main villa is a two-storey south wing facing the garden, and a two-storey north wing with an entrance front on the east side, forming an L-shaped plan around a courtyard on the west side. The walls are pebble-dashed, with the villa itself set upon a plinth of limewashed rubble stone. The villa has conical slate roofs above projecting eaves and a plain cornice, the south wing has a gabled roof, and the north wing a hipped roof. Horned sash windows are found throughout the building.

Tall brick stacks, replacing earlier ones, rise from the centre of each elevation on the north and south sides. The entrance front, facing east, is accessed by flights of stone steps to the left and right. Glazed double entrance doors have a three-pane overlight, above which is a small sash window to the upper storey. The towers are characterised by triple sash windows beneath recessed blind round-headed arches, with a smaller window beneath the eaves and two-light small-pane basement windows. The north elevation has small sashes on each storey, while the south elevation features a round-headed niche in the lower storey. Beneath the steps on the east side is a basement entrance within a small walled yard with replaced gates. A central round-headed doorway has a replaced door, flanked by an inserted doorway to the left and a window to the right. Barrel-vaulted recesses are found in the side walls of the yard.

The north wing’s entrance front features a two-storey bow window set back to the right, with four equally-placed sashes above. The lower storey has a porch offset to the left, with two pairs of Doric pilasters and double half-lit doors. To the right of the porch is a paired sash window, and to the left, two similar sash windows.

The garden front, on the south side of the south wing, has a central ridge stack and an external stack to the left gable end. A two-storey bow window is set back from the angle to the left, followed by four sash windows in the upper storey. The lower storey has a twelve-pane window to the left, and a French door offset to the left under a three-pane overlight. Further to the right, the lower storey is open fronted with a doorway under a three-pane overlight flanked by oval windows.

The rear elevations of the south and north wings have sash windows and an added conservatory in the courtyard. The north wing includes an advanced bay to the left of centre, with a hipped roof and ridge stack, along with added single-storey projections in front and to the left, and an added 20th-century window in the upper storey.

Four main rooms are located within the round towers, arranged around a central spiral stair with wrought iron balusters, which leads to a circular first-floor gallery. Original service rooms are housed in the basement.