Moraston House
MORASTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288682
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Moraston House
- Statutory Address:
- MORASTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288682
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Moraston House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORASTON HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MORASTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridstow
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 57023 25658
Details
BRIDSTOW CP SO 52 NE 4/20 Moraston House
II
House. Circa 1815 with late C19 extensions. Rendered brick and sandstone with rendered brick stacks and hipped Welsh slate roof. U-plan with main front to south-east and late C19 wings extending northwards. Two storeys to front, three to rear wings. South elevation has 2:1:2 windows, glazing bar sashes to upper storey, plate-glass sashes to ground floor, all with louvred 2-leaved shutters, advanced centre with Doric 4-column porch and semi-circular headed doorway, fanlight and glazed door. Interior has canti- levered staircase with one niche beneath and two above the curve of the staircase, mahogany handrail; quadrant-curve carving to tread ends and alternating system of plain and enriched balusters; principal room to west of main range has high 2-leaved doors, fluted architraves with corner paterae to door-surrounds of ground floor, two ground floor fireplaces have central shell motif, box shutters to main ground floor rooms and between inner and outer doors of main south entrance. The coloumns of the porch are hollow and wooden.
Listing NGR: SO5702325658
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398878
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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