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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Date: 07 Jun 2005
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