The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1954. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- broken-floor-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, Park Road, Gisburn, BB7 4HT
- OS grid reference
- SD 827 488
- Coordinates
- 53.93557, -2.26431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar with a slate roof. The house is two storeys high. The front facade features two two-storey canted bay windows, and a central first-floor window with plain ashlar reveals. All windows are either sash windows with glazing bars or fixed windows with glazing bars, and have sill bands. A moulded band runs above the first-floor windows, followed by a cornice with a blocking course. Two urns sit above each projecting bay, with a further urn at each end of the facade. The central doorway has an architrave, console brackets, and a moulded pediment. Chimneys are located at the ends of the building. At the rear, there are two three-light mullioned windows; the ground-floor window is of 17th-century style, while the first-floor window is of 18th-century style. This building holds group value and contributes to the character of its setting.
Local climate
The Dower House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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