Hockley, also known as Erin and Cowslip Green, is a historic estate (land), estate located near Gloucester, Virginia, Gloucester, Gloucester County, Virginia. 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, barn, two chicken sheds, garage, pump house, well, ice house (building), 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).
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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
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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
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