Penyard House, Ross-on-Wye

The hotel, which provided restaurant services and catered for special events, closed in mid 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and did not reopen.

[3] A tourist guide of 1821 comments that John Partridge was proposing to build a new house on his estate at Weston.

[4] So it was at about this time that a major new extension was built adjacent to and east of the existing farm house, which had probably previously been occupied by the bailiff of the Lower Weston Estate.

In 1819 when his father died John inherited the "Lower Weston" estate and several other properties.

In the early 1820s John commissioned the architect Jeffry Wyatville to build a house called Bishopswood near Ross-On-Wye.

One of the early tenants in Penyard House was John Dowle (1770-1843) who owned land in the surrounding area.

He was born in 1798 in London and joined the East India Company's Civil service.

The 1861 Census shows him living there with his five unmarried daughters and his only surviving son Major General William Henry Stubbs.

Her mother was Catherine Mary Jane Hoskyns whose family owned Harewood Park.

Robert Alfred Lowth, whose father was a first cousin of Mary Harkness, inherited the house on her death in 1924.