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Latitude: 52.0854 / 52°5'7"N
Longitude: -2.9376 / 2°56'15"W
OS Eastings: 335852
OS Northings: 243414
OS Grid: SO358434
Mapcode National: GBR F8.BZYP
Mapcode Global: VH77X.1VC7
Entry Name: Estate Building, Home Farmhouse
Listing Date: 23 September 1987
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1081853
English Heritage Legacy ID: 150003
Location: Moccas, County of Herefordshire, HR2
County: County of Herefordshire
Civil Parish: Moccas
Traditional County: Herefordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Herefordshire
Church of England Parish: Moccas
Church of England Diocese: Hereford
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
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