St Ethelbert's is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
St Ethelbert's
- WRENN ID
- dusk-cupola-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- St Ethelbert's, Castle Hill, Hereford, HR1 2NJ
- OS grid reference
- SO 511 396
- Coordinates
- 52.05347, -2.71441
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Ethelbert's is a house dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century, featuring earlier elements. It is constructed of brick and has a shallow pitched Welsh slate roof, with a brick ridge stack, a stepped buttress stack to the right, and a stack at the rear. The building has a central staircase plan and stands three storeys high with a five-window range. The windows include 6/6 sashes, with a slightly larger pair on the left under segmental arches, and 3/6 sashes under cambered flat arches. The eaves are adorned with brick modillion.
The central entrance features a moulded six-panel door and fanlight beneath a semicircular gauged brick arch, flanked by 6/6 sashes under segmental arches. On the left side, there is a 19th-century half-glazed door with a casement overlight that has a central glazing bar.
Inside, the house has a dogleg staircase with stick balusters, a swan neck rail, and turned newels. On the second floor, there is a two-panel door, two four-panel doors, plank doors, 19th-century fire surrounds, and architraves to the windows. The first floor includes three four-panel doors with architraves, a cornice, architraves to the windows, and a late 19th-century tiled fireplace with a slate surround. The ground floor features architraves to the windows, two six-panel doors, an exposed chamfered ceiling frame with an arched brace and passing-brace, a 19th-century fire surround, a four-panel door, and exposed box framing. The cellar is brick-lined with some cobbled floors, masonry, a chamfered ceiling beam, and a plank door.
Local climate
St Ethelbert's receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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