Berrington House is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1952. A C17 House.

Berrington House

WRENN ID
tattered-plinth-ebony
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
Berrington House, 2, St Nicholas Street, Hereford
OS grid reference
SO 507 398
Coordinates
52.05452, -2.71907
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Berrington House is a house that has been converted into offices. It was built around 1635 and had its front remodeled in 1745. The structure is made of brick and timber-frame, topped with a hipped Welsh slate roof and features a brick stack on the left side. The house has an E-shaped plan and consists of three storeys and a cellar.

The exterior includes a four-window range with 2/2 sash windows set in moulded cases beneath painted stone lintels with moulded cornices. There are brick bands beneath the windows and under the moulded wood eaves. The central left doorway features a 20th-century half-glazed door, which is recessed under a moulded lintel with a moulded stone flat hood supported by curved brackets and fluted pilasters with curved capitals. To the left of the doorway are two 19th-century sashes, and to the right is one 19th-century sash, with a brick band above. The right side has lead rainwater goods embossed with "TLI 1745."

Inside, the house boasts a 17th-century open-well staircase with turned balusters, a moulded string and rail, and pierced pendants. The staircase features decorated plasterwork soffits and a bolection moulded cornice. On the second floor, there are three moulded three-panel doors, two panelled doors, a plank door, architraves, ceiling cornices, and panelled risers and reveals to the windows. The fireplaces from the 18th century have bolection mouldings, and there is a panelled dado and an 18th-century wall cupboard with a bolection-moulded architrave.

The first floor contains three- and six-panel doors with architraves, 18th-century fireplaces (one decorated with foliage), and a panelled room with a cornice, as well as a 19th-century fireplace. The ground floor features a polychrome tiled hall, a 19th-century panelled dado, a six-panel door with architraves, an 18th-century fireplace, and a panelled room with moulded ceiling beams. The front panelled room has chamfered ceiling beams and a moulded plasterwork ceiling with figures, along with a six-panel door and a cornice in the hall.

Local climate

Berrington 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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