The Old Rectory, Moccas, Herefordshire

MOCCAS. —A rectory house has just been built here for the Rev. G. H. Cornewall. It consists of drawing-room, dining-room, library, and kitchen department, on the ground floor, with eight bedrooms on the first floor. It is built of red bricks, with stone bands. The joinery is varnished, neither painted nor stained. The principal rooms have fireplaces, lined with Poole tiles, and have dog grates. The building looks large from the high road, from being in the form of L, set with the corner towards the road. The total cost is £1000. Mr. George Truefitt is the architect. Messrs Evans are the builders. [Hereford Journal 29 February 1860 page 5]

MOCCAS (HEREFORDSHIRE) — A rectory' house has just been built here for the Rev. G. H. Cornewall. It consists of drawing-room, dining-room, library, and kitchen department, on the ground floor, with eight bedrooms on the first floor. It is built of red bricks, with stone hands. The joinery is varnished, neither painted nor stained. The principal rooms have fireplaces, lined with Poole tiles, and have dog grates. The building looks large from the high road, from being in the form of an “L” set with corner towards the road. The total cost is £1,000. Mr. George Truefitt is the architect. Messrs. Evans are the builders.  [Builder 18 February 1860 page 110]

Reference           Builder 18 February 1860 page 110
Reference           Hereford Journal 29 February 1860 page 5

The Cornewall family of Moccas Court were patrons of the living at Moccas and in 1858 the Rev Sir George Henry Cornewall was himself appointed rector. Sir George Cornewall lived at his mansion house, but to provide accommodation for his curate (and from 1908, the vicar) he had built at a cost of £900, a modest brick and slate dwelling This is quite plain, the main front having as its major feature, a two storey canted bay window with pyramid roof. George Truefitt was the architect; he later provided a school at Preston on Wye and in 1877 rebuilt the church at Blakemere. (1) Historic farm recorded as part of the Herefordshire Historic Farmsteads Characterisation Project. Present on the Ordnance Survey First Edition, Pre WW2 and Modern maps.