Moraston House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. House.

Moraston House

WRENN ID
bitter-bracket-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 March 1987
Type
House
Address
Moraston House, Bridstow
OS grid reference
SO 570 256
Coordinates
51.92778, -2.62641
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Moraston House is a house built around 1815, with later extensions added in the late 19th century. It is constructed of rendered brick and sandstone, featuring rendered brick stacks and a hipped Welsh slate roof. The building has a U-shaped plan, with the main front facing southeast and late 19th-century wings extending northwards. The front elevation has two storeys, while the rear wings have three storeys.

The south elevation displays a 2:1:2 window arrangement, with glazing bar sashes on the upper storey and plate-glass sashes on the ground floor, all fitted with louvred two-leaved shutters. The central section is advanced and features a Doric porch supported by four columns, leading to a semi-circular headed doorway with a fanlight and glazed door.

Inside, there is a cantilevered staircase with one niche beneath and two above the curve, finished with a mahogany handrail. The tread ends are adorned with quadrant-curve carving, and there is an alternating system of plain and enriched balusters. The principal room to the west of the main range includes high two-leaved doors with fluted architraves and corner paterae around the door surrounds on the ground floor. Two ground floor fireplaces feature a central shell motif, and there are box shutters in the main ground floor rooms and between the inner and outer doors of the main south entrance. Notably, the columns of the porch are hollow and made of wood.

Local climate

Moraston House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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