Moor House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1952. House. 3 related planning applications.
Moor House
- WRENN ID
- veiled-niche-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Moor House, Widemarsh Common, Hereford, HR4 9NA
- OS grid reference
- SO 504 408
- Coordinates
- 52.06394, -2.72397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moor House is an earlier 18th-century house located in Widemarsh Common, Hereford. It is constructed of brick with a hipped roof covered in Welsh slate, featuring a brick ridge stack and a brick stack to the rear. The house has two storeys and an attic, with an 8-window front. The windows are 6/6 sash windows set in moulded cases, each with a gauged brick segmental arch. A storeyband runs along the front, and there are deep eaves. The roof has three dormers with 9-light horizontal casements and moulded eaves.
The central entrance has a 20th-century brick porch with panelled double doors and overlight, leading to an original 18th-century 6-panel door with a margin-glazed overlight, flanked by pilasters. The rear of the house features sashes and casements, a glazed porch, and an 18/2 round-headed sash window with stained glass. There are brick modillion eaves.
Inside, the house contains an open-well staircase with turned balusters and newels, a swan neck rail, and a panelled dado to the first floor. On the second floor, a 19th-century fireplace is present, and oak posts and studs are exposed. The first floor includes 6-panel doors, a 19th-century fireplace, an 18th-century panelled room with coving, and a 4-panel door. Various 19th-century fireplaces, architraves, a lined arch, overlight, tiled fireplace, panelling, and a coved ceiling are also noted. The ground floor has 6-panel doors with architraves, a slate fireplace, a 19th-century panelled dado, and a hall featuring 17th and 18th-century panelling and arch-mouldings. A notable feature is a 19th-century bolection-moulded fireplace with tiles and a 1654 fireback, alongside a 17th-century stone fireplace with a 1683 fireback. Window shutters are also present. One ground floor room has an enriched plaster ceiling, alcoves with panelled doors, and a 19th-century fireplace. A 19th-century wing to the rear includes a half-glazed door and screen, a polychrome tiled floor, and a panelled dado.
Local climate
Moor House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- 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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