Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26577053

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)