Ring House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. House.
Ring House
- WRENN ID
- long-niche-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ring House, Fownhope
- OS grid reference
- SO 582 340
- Coordinates
- 52.00312, -2.61028
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ring House is a 17th-century house that was altered in the 18th century and was undergoing restoration at the time of the last survey in April 1985. The house features a timber frame with a sandstone rubble plinth and stack, which has been partially refaced with late 18th-century sandstone rubble. The roof is a combination of slate and tiles, with some brick infilling.
The building consists of two framed bays, with two additional bays that have been partially refaced with sandstone, aligned in a north/south direction. There is a central axial stack, and the entrances, which were formerly central, consist of two for each pair of bays. A 20th-century extension is currently being constructed to the east.
The house is two storeys tall. The west front shows the skeletal frame of the two northern bays, which have indeterminable former openings. The two southern bays to the right feature half-dormers with 2-light casement windows. Below these, there are two openings with segmental brick heads. The large central axial stack was formerly equipped with a bread oven.
Local climate
Ring House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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