Bigsweir House is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1954. House. 1 related planning application.
Bigsweir House
- WRENN ID
- proud-wall-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bigsweir House, St. Briavels, GL15 6RR
- OS grid reference
- SO 538 045
- Coordinates
- 51.73734, -2.66964
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bigsweir House is a detached country house built in the mid-18th century. It features cut and squared sandstone over a chamfered offset plinth, topped with a hipped Welsh slate roof and a moulded wood eaves cornice. The house has end stacks, with the left stack made of brick and the right stack made of stone. A deep back wing is constructed of sandstone rubble and also has a Welsh slate roof.
The house is 2½ storeys tall with a basement and has five windows. There are three small 2-light hipped dormers above 12-pane sash windows, which have broad sash boxes, stone voussoirs, and stone cills. In the basement, there is a 2-light chamfered mullion casement window on the left and a similar window set back from a segmental head on the right.
At the front, there is a central pair of 20th-century glazed doors within a sandstone Roman Doric portico that has a pediment. This entrance is approached by eight steps with nosings and low walls that flare to piers with broad moulded cappings and urns. To the right of the main structure, there is a flat-roofed 20th-century extension. The left return of the house has one bay that matches the front, plus a blank opening. The back wing is two storeys tall but built into the slope of the land, making it appear as one storey from the back. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Bigsweir House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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 — 1 application
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