Bowling Green House is a Grade II listed building in the Southampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1981. House.

Bowling Green House

WRENN ID
fossil-trefoil-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southampton
Constituency
Southampton Itchen MP: Darren Paffey (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 October 1981
Type
House
Address
Bowling Green House, 1-8, Orchard Place, City of Southampton
OS grid reference
SU 421 110
Coordinates
50.89715, -1.4018
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bowling Green House, located on Orchard Place, is a mid-19th century building that stands three storeys tall and is constructed from stock brick. The roof is currently covered with green slating. At the center, there is a cupola supported by eight Tuscan columns, topped with a steep weathervane. The building features a paired bracket eaves cornice and five sash windows with intact glazing bars and cornices on the first floor. Additionally, the first floor includes a cast iron balcony. The end elevation displays a pediment with a blank oval and a two-light window on the two lower floors. The north elevation has doorcases featuring an open pediment and Tuscan half columns.

Local climate

Bowling Green House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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