Moorside House and Attached Railings is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1962. A Georgian House. 3 related planning applications.
Moorside House and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- tattered-chalk-khaki
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 December 1962
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Moorside House and Attached Railings, Parkgate Road, Neston
- OS grid reference
- SJ 287 776
- Coordinates
- 53.29067, -3.06977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moorside House is an early 18th-century house located on Parkgate Road, Neston. It is constructed of brown brick in Flemish bond, with a stone plinth, doorcase, and eaves cornice. The roof is slate, with brick end stacks to both ranges. The house has a three-story, four-bay front elevation. A flight of four steps leads to the front door, which is an eight-panel design set within an eared doorcase featuring panelled reveals and a shell hood. The windows are six-over-six sash windows with exposed weight boxes, painted stone sills, and channelled wedge lintels with keyblocks. A moulded eaves cornice is surmounted by a low solid parapet.
The interior features an entrance hall with mahogany six-panel doors and a festoon-based cornice. A dog-leg staircase has a curtail step, cut and bracketed string, wreathed handrail, and dado panelling on all floors. The dining room also has dado panelling. Dado moulds are present in the bedrooms, with pilasters flanking the mantels in the front range. Wooden ceiling cornices are above fireplace openings and above Six-panel doors of flanking cupboards. Six-panel doors with lugged architraves are fitted with rising HL-hinges. Wrought-iron railings are a notable subsidiary feature.
Local climate
Moorside House and Attached Railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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