BOSBURY HOUSE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1302712
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1986
- Statutory Address:
- BOSBURY HOUSE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- BOSBURY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bosbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 70537 44010
Details
BOSBURY CP -
SO 74 SW
7/32 Bosbury House
- II
Former hunting lodge, now house. Late C18 substantially altered in 1873 for
the Reverend Edward Higgins. Italianate villa style. Brick with sandstone
ashlar dressings, hipped slate roof. Double-pile plan with central entrance
facing west, further additions to north. Two storeys and cellars, string
course, cornice with blocking course and balustraded parapet to main house.
Similar arrangement to slightly lower addition without parapet; main house,
1:5:1 x 5 bays, central five in slightly forward break, glazing bar sash
windows with moulded stone architraves; steps up to central Tuscan portico
with paired columns, elliptical headed doorway with radiating fanlight, half-
glazed door. Interior retains some stuccoed ceiling decoration and a cupola
above colonnaded room to left of hallway (now billiard room).
Listing NGR: SO7053744010
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 152997
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
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