Moretons is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. A C18 House. 4 related planning applications.
Moretons
- WRENN ID
- haunted-steel-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Moretons, 31, East Street, Wareham Town
- OS grid reference
- SY 924 874
- Coordinates
- 50.68653, -2.10778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moretons, located at No 31 on East Street, is a building that dates from before the 18th century and was altered in the early 19th century. It features a stucco exterior and a pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves supported by paired brackets. The building has red brick stacks with cornicing and stands two storeys tall.
The façade includes one range of sash windows in moulded frames, one range of Yorkshire casements in moulded frames, two casements on the first floor, and one cased sash on the ground floor. The entrance door has six moulded panels set within panelled reveals, and the doorcase is decorated with a blind trellis pattern and fluted pilasters, topped by a segmental hood on cut brackets.
Moretons is part of a group with Nos 13 to 33 (odd), 37, and 39, of which Nos 23 and 25 are of local interest only.
Local climate
Moretons receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 4 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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