Wardour House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1988. Residential.
Wardour House
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-sill-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1988
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Wardour House, Whitney-On-Wye
- OS grid reference
- SO 268 474
- Coordinates
- 52.12053, -3.07039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wardour House is a rectory that has been converted into a house, built around 1735 with alterations made in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed from coursed dressed rubble with ashlar dressings and features a steeply-pitched hipped slate roof, along with rubble end chimneys and a rear chimney with brick stacks. It has two storeys and an attic with dormers, and is designed with three-course bands at the levels of the storeys. The façade consists of two bays, a central bay that is gabled and projects slightly, and a total of five bays overall.
The windows on the main storeys have wedge lintels with raised dropped keyblocks, ashlar sills, and are all 12-pane sashes. There are two gabled dormers featuring moulded bargeboards and 4-pane sashes, and within the central gable, there is a keyed oculus. The central entrance is marked by a flat timber canopy supported by straight timber brackets, leading to a 6-panelled door, of which the two upper panels are glazed. Additionally, there is a lean-to outshut adjoining the right side elevation and a continuous lean-to outshut at the rear. This house was built to replace the former rectory that was destroyed in the floods of 1735.
Local climate
Wardour House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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