Moreton House

Moreton House is a detached house, built around 1896 by Thomas Garner. It was originally designed for the antiquary and art collector F.E. Sidney. The house is rough-cast with stone dressings, featuring tiled, gabled roofs and tall stone chimney stacks.

The three-storey, three-bay front has a projecting central bay that forms a porch on the ground floor. The architectural style is Cotswold vernacular Jacobean. The stone porch is designed in a 17th-century manner, with a round-arched entrance flanked by columns on pedestals supporting an entablature, which breaks forward over the columns. The returns have rectangular openings with baluster mullions. Above the porch is a sculpted heraldic tablet and above the first-floor window, a sculpted Virgin and Child within an aedicule. The ground floor has four-light transom and mullion casement windows, while the upper floors have three- and four-light transomed casements, all with small leaded panes. Decorated rainwater heads and pipes are dated 1896. A right-hand return elevation features a chimney stack rising the full height of the house and flanked at third-floor level by two small casements. The rear elevation includes projecting wings with half-timbered gables and transom and mullion windows.

The interior was not inspected for the listing, but some main rooms, notably the library, are noted to still be present.