The Moor House is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. A C19 House. 7 related planning applications.
The Moor House
- WRENN ID
- vacant-copper-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Moor House, Overton Road, Biddulph, ST8 7SQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 899 600
- Coordinates
- 53.13777, -2.15237
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Moor House is a mid-19th century house that has been converted into flats. It is constructed from rock-faced, coursed stone with smooth dressings and features a tiled roof with dressed verge parapets and finials. The building has a loosely Italianate design arranged in a 'U' shape that opens to the front.
The entrance elevation is two to three stories high and sits on a plinth. To the left is a gabled two-storey projection that was originally a service wing, while the entrance wing is to the right. The center is set back, featuring a gable to the left and a four-stage campanile set back to the right side. The campanile has buttresses, string courses at each stage, a dentil cornice, and a reduced two-light bell chamber topped with a pyramidal roof.
The windows are round-arched, some with transoms and corbel hoods above the gables. The set-back section includes three- and two-light windows, with two additional windows at the entrance and a range of two single lights in cavetto reveals at the campanile. The entrance features a flat-roofed single-storey tripartite porch that is balustraded and pilastered, with flanking sidelights and a round-arch entry leading to part-glazed doors. The house is situated in a commanding position within a parkland setting.
Local climate
The Moor House receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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