Dunsborough House is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1985. House.

Dunsborough House

WRENN ID
patient-chapel-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Guildford
Constituency
Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 November 1985
Type
House
Address
Dunsborough House, Dunsborough Park, Ripley
OS grid reference
TQ 052 571
Coordinates
51.3042, -0.4916
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dunsborough House is a house with a core dating from the 17th century, which was refaced in the 18th century and underwent further extensions and alterations in the late 18th century and 19th century. In the 20th century, it was extended further to the right. The old range is located to the left of the center, with an extension set back to the right that projects to the left, and an end range to the left connected by a screen wall.

The main house is two storeys high with attics in the gables. It features a rebuilt stack to the left of the right-hand gable and an additional stack at the rear. A ribbed, square-domed open lantern sits on the ridge of the right-hand gable. There is a plat band over the ground floor, a cornice over the first floor, and brick string coursed coping around the gables. The house has four bays with 12-pane glazing bar sash windows, four on each floor, all under gauged brick heads.

To the right, there is a 20th-century extension that is open on the ground floor and supported by three thin Doric columns. A fine 17th-century door and case can be found on the left-hand wall of the porch, featuring six fielded panels within a fluted Doric pilaster surround. The right extension is two storeys tall, with five cambered head leaded casement windows on the first floor and four below. A half-glazed, cambered head door is located to the left under a flat hood, with an additional door to the right accessed through a brick arch. There is a further, lower extension set back to the right end.

To the left, a two-bay 19th-century extension is attached to the main house, which is one storey high with a plat band at the base of the parapet. It has two tall 15-pane glazing bar sash windows under gauged brick heads. A 20th-century screen wall at a 90-degree angle features a moulded brick semi-dome under a plat band leading to a 20th-century rectangular block at the end. The garden front includes a two-bay 19th-century range to the right and 20th-century extensions to the left. An early 18th-century gabled bay is set back to the center, with string courses on each floor, a glazed door, and two glazing bar sash windows on the first floor.

Local climate

Dunsborough House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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