Upper Roxbush is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. A C17 Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Upper Roxbush
- WRENN ID
- inner-timber-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Upper Roxbush, Ross Road, Longhope, GL17 0LL
- OS grid reference
- SO 679 206
- Coordinates
- 51.88336, -2.46658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Boxbush is an early 17th-century farmhouse. It features a timber-framed structure resting on a random rubble plinth, with painted brick nogging and some surviving wattle and daub. The roof is tiled and the building is arranged in an L-plan, consisting of three rooms in the main wing and two storeys, with the upper half set in the roof. The framing consists of three panels high, with low tension braces in the gable and one in the main facade.
There is a timber-framed, gabled porch over a boarded door, with another boarded door to the left. A small lean-to dormer is located immediately to the left, while various scattered windows are present throughout. The gable facing the road has a sash window on each floor, with the lower window having six panes.
Internally, the two rooms closest to the road are separated by a large internal chimney stack. The front door opens directly in front of one hearth, originally leading into a timber lobby. There is a steep segmental head to the door leading to the unheated end room. Both rooms feature heavy chamfers on the ceiling beams, with smaller chamfers and similar stops on the exposed joists. The ceiling beams in the bedroom nearest the road are also chamfered, and there is a collar truss with the principal rafter jointed directly to the wall post, with a stud set slightly inside.
Local climate
Upper Roxbush receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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