Alton Court is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1952. House. 1 related planning application.

Alton Court

WRENN ID
stony-sandstone-martin
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
Alton Court, Ross-On-Wye, HR9 5GL
OS grid reference
SO 605 234
Coordinates
51.90774, -2.57545
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Alton Court is a building dating from the 16th century or earlier. It has three storeys and is timber framed with a modern tiled roof. The northwest front features two gabled wings. The left wing has closely set studding, projecting gables, and a moulded bressummer. It includes casement windows with old catches and leaded panes on two floors. This wing is supported by a stone base and has an old doorway flanked by two-light windows with chamfered stone mullions. The right wing is roughcast and painted to imitate timber, standing on a high stone base with a large casement window on the top floor that has wooden mullions and transoms.

The northeast front rests on an irregular stone base with closely set timber framing above. To the left is a gable featuring a large 17th-century style casement window with wooden transoms and mullions, while below it is a later stone porch. On the right side, there is a slightly projecting gabled wing with a small casement window in the gable and large casement windows on each floor below. The southeast front has been roughcast, and a poorly designed modern verandah has been added.

Local climate

Alton Court 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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