Hockley, also known as Erin and Cowslip Green, is a historic estate located near

Gloucester Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east ...

Gloucester County, Virginia Gloucester County () is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,711. Its county seat is Gloucester Courthouse. The county was founded in 1651 in the Virginia Colony and is named for Henry Stuart, ...

. The core of the main house was built about 1840, then added to in 1857, and modified to its present form in 1901 and 1906. It is a -story, five bay, frame dwelling on a brick foundation. The front facade features two flanking two-story, 12 feet in diameter, octagonal towers, each with original copper finials at the peak. The 60 feet by 32 feet sized main structure has a 24 feet by 18 feet kitchen wing and attached garage. The property includes a contributing

archaeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology an ...

, barn, two chicken sheds, garage, pump house, well, ice house. It was the home of Fannie Johnson Taliaferro, an early proponent of historic preservation and pioneering member of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA, now

Preservation Virginia Founded in 1889, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities was the United States' first statewide historic preservation group. In 2003 the organization adopted the new name APVA Preservation Virginia to reflect a broader focus o ...

). an
''Accompanying four photos''
/ref> It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2010.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses completed in 1906 Houses in Gloucester County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Gloucester County, Virginia 1906 establishments in Virginia {{GloucesterCountyVA-NRHP-stub