Rowberry House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1952. House, offices, hairdresser's. 1 related planning application.
Rowberry House
- WRENN ID
- young-panel-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1952
- Type
- House, offices, hairdresser's
- Address
- Rowberry House, 18, St Owen Street, Hereford, HR1 2PL
- OS grid reference
- SO 512 398
- Coordinates
- 52.05517, -2.71251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rowberry House, formerly known as No. 131 St Owen Street, is a house that has been converted into offices and a hairdresser's. It dates from the early 19th century and features a painted brick exterior with a Welsh slate mansard roof. The building stands four storeys tall with a cellar and has a three-window range. The windows include Gothick-glazed 9/6 sashes set in moulded cases beneath segmental arches, a storey band, 6/6 sashes with cambered heads in moulded cases, another storey band, and 3/3 sashes. The eaves are moulded wood.
The entrance is located to the right and consists of a six-panel door with a fanlight glazed overlight, all beneath a moulded cambered wood hood supported by wrought-iron brackets. To the left, there are two 20th-century shop windows framed by plain pilasters, with a 20th-century fascia board partially obscuring the storey band. The building also features a firemark.
Inside, there is an early 19th-century dogleg staircase with turned balusters and newels, and a stick baluster stair leading to the third floor. On the second floor, there are two two-panel doors, a half-glazed panel door, exposed ceiling beams, and two 19th-century fireplaces. The first floor includes a six-panel door, architraves, and lined reveals at the front windows. The ground floor showcases pilasters with capitals.
Local climate
Rowberry House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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