Dunfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1953. Country house, conference centre. 1 related planning application.
Dunfield House
- WRENN ID
- buried-jamb-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1953
- Type
- Country house, conference centre
- Address
- Dunfield House, Lower Harpton, HR5 3NN
- OS grid reference
- SO 273 584
- Coordinates
- 52.2194, -3.0645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dunfield House is a country house that has been converted into a conference centre. It dates from the late 19th century but incorporates elements from a late 17th-century house. The building is constructed of coursed and squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring both Welsh slate and stone slate roofs. It has an irregular plan with the main range oriented east to west and facing south. The central entrance is flanked by projecting cross-wings and there are several decorative axial stacks.
The house is two storeys high, with attics and cellars. The south front features string courses that continue over the windows as labels, along with decorative bargeboards on the gables. The elevation is asymmetrical, with a series of bays arranged in a 1:1:1:1:1:1 pattern, each containing single vertical glazing bar sash windows. The cross-wings have projecting canted gable ends, and the entrance is located in the second and fifth bays, with a lean-to single-storey porch immediately to the left of the projecting wing on the right. This porch has a shouldered head to the outer doorway and flanking lights, leading to an inner four-panelled door.
Inside, the house retains a mutilated late 17th-century staircase with turned balusters and square newels, as well as fragments of 15th-century glass in the staircase window.
Local climate
Dunfield House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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