Now a thriving girls’ school to the north of Oswestry, the earliest part of Moreton is said to have originally been built by Edmund or Henry Lacon in 1527. The house passed from the Lacons to the Owens of Porkington (q.v. now known as Brogyntyn) and Robert Owen is said to have made further alterations to the house which became a dower house for Porkington. In the late seventeenth century, though, Edward Hunt (married at Selattyn in 1652, died 1702) is recorded as of Moreton Hall.

In circa 1820, Moreton is said to have been sold to John Dickin of the Loppington family who lived there until his death in 1838, whereupon it passed to his second son Stephen Dickin (baptised 1805, died 1843). He, in turn, left the property to his only daughter, Elizabeth Sarah. In 1861 she had married a judge, Edmund Burke-Wood, the son of the Ven. Isaac Wood of Newton Hall, Archdeacon of Chester and Vicar and Patron of Middlewich, and his wife Mary Nugent, a niece of the Hon. Edmund Burke. In 1904 Edmund Burke-Wood died, whilst his widow lived a further ten years until 1914. Following her death, the property was sold by her two surviving daughters in 1919. It was purchased by Ellen Augusta Crawley Lloyd-Williams, who had established a school in Oswestry in 1913.

The house, as it now stands, is a complicated structure. The main body is largely an H-plan, two-storey house which appears to be of early seventeenth-century date, with a three-bay hall range flanked by two-bay cross-wings – that to the east extended northwards in the nineteenth century. The main front faces south and has a hipped roof raised on a modillion cornice, which appears to be a late seventeenth-century alteration. Built of brick with sandstone dressings and raised on a sandstone plinth, the front still retains its mullioned and transomed windows and a lower central doorway to which a cyma-moulding – which runs across the heads of the ground floor windows – drops down. The doorway itself is relatively diminutive and has a Tudor-arched head, whilst above the small first floor window and disturbed brickwork between, suggests that either a later pediment or perhaps an escutcheon of arms has been removed.