Bossington House is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. Country house. 12 related planning applications.
Bossington House
- WRENN ID
- burning-wall-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1986
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Bossington House, SO20 6LY
- OS grid reference
- SU 337 311
- Coordinates
- 51.07839, -1.51999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bossington House is a small country house built around 1840 by John Davies. It features yellow brick and dressed stone with a slate roof that has lead ridges. The house is designed in a five-bay double pile layout, standing two storeys tall with an attic above cellars. The front of the house includes a full-height, projecting central porch, which was likely added later. This porch has a tall, four-centred archway with a cornice above and a string course at the first floor level. The corners of the building are supported by diagonal buttresses.
On the first floor, there are paired sash windows with a mullion between them and rusticated stone quoins. A heavy cornice runs along the flat roof. The original front of the house features slightly projecting bays with thin sash windows on either side of the porch, topped with a Dutch gable that has a two-light mullioned window. The inner bays contain 12-pane sash windows set in stone architraves on each floor, above which is a stone crest with a small Dutch gable. The end bays are also slightly projecting and feature two-storey rectangular bays with triple thin sashes separated by mullions, topped with a stone cornice. Above these bays, there is a two-light mullioned window in the Dutch gable. Additionally, three diamond-shafted stacks are positioned between the bays, set crossways.
Local climate
Bossington House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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