Bosbury House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1986. House.
Bosbury House
- WRENN ID
- peeling-stair-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1986
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SO 705 440
- Coordinates
- 52.09365, -2.43147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bosbury House is a former hunting lodge that has been converted into a house. It was built in the late 18th century and significantly altered in 1873 for the Reverend Edward Higgins. The building is designed in the Italianate villa style and constructed of brick with sandstone ashlar dressings, topped with a hipped slate roof. It features a double-pile plan with a central entrance facing west and additional structures to the north.
The house is two storeys tall with cellars, and it has a string course, a cornice with a blocking course, and a balustraded parapet on the main section. There is a similar arrangement on a slightly lower addition that lacks a parapet. The main house has a façade of five bays, with the central five bays set slightly forward. It includes glazing bar sash windows with moulded stone architraves.
Access to the house is via steps leading up to a central Tuscan portico, which has paired columns and an elliptical-headed doorway with a radiating fanlight and a half-glazed door. Inside, the house retains some stuccoed ceiling decoration and features a cupola above a colonnaded room to the left of the hallway, which is now used as a billiard room.
Local climate
Bosbury House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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