Merton House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1952. House. 7 related planning applications.
Merton House
- WRENN ID
- pale-flue-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Merton House, Edde Cross Street, Ross-On-Wye, HR9 7BZ
- OS grid reference
- SO 597 242
- Coordinates
- 51.91567, -2.58593
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merton House is an early 19th-century building, formerly known as the Merton Hotel, located on the west side of Edde Cross Street. Tradition, though unconfirmed, suggests it was named after Merton Place in Surrey and was frequented by Lady Hamilton and Nelson. The building is two storeys high with a hipped slate roof that appears relatively flat. It has three sash windows with projecting sills on the front elevation. Flanking the main building are single-storey wings with flat roofs and large round-headed windows. A balcony with iron railings and French windows is at the first floor of the rear elevation. French windows with Venetian shutters are present on the ground floor. Internally, two rooms feature ceilings divided into panels by small moulded wooden strings, and one room contains heraldic shields at the panel joints, reportedly brought from Surrey.
Local climate
Merton 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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