The Shrubbery is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. Villa. 2 related planning applications.

The Shrubbery

WRENN ID
gilded-copper-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Portsmouth
Constituency
Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Villa
Address
The Shrubbery, Grove Road South, City of Portsmouth, PO5 3QS
OS grid reference
SZ 644 991
Coordinates
50.78879, -1.08748
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Shrubbery is a villa dating from 1845, designed by Thomas Ellis Owen. The villa is constructed of stuccoed walls with a low-pitched Welsh slate roof and rendered stacks to the left and right on the rear slope. It is two storeys high and has three bays, with a slight projection in the centre featuring horizontal rustications. The centre bay contains a recessed four-panelled door with a radial glazed fanlight set under a round arch. Flanked on either side are sixteen-pane sash windows, each with a recessed panel below the sill. A rendered plinth rises from the ground, and a decorative guilloche band runs around the first floor. The first floor features an eight-pane sash window at the centre and sixteen-pane sash windows with recessed panels below the sills on either side. The interior of the villa has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Shrubbery receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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