The Dower House and Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Dower House and Wall
- WRENN ID
- salt-kitchen-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House and Wall, Grange Lane, Thurnby and Bushby, LE7 9PH
- OS grid reference
- SK 646 039
- Coordinates
- 52.62902, -1.04606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is an 18th-century house that was extended and altered in the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick, with a small section of rubble stone, and features a hipped Swithland slate roof that slopes to the left. The house has brick stacks, with one on the left ridge and another projecting from the right end, as well as rear stacks. A brick band runs along the first floor.
The building has three storeys, each with three sash windows arranged as tripartite 1/1, 1/1, and 1/1, along with a 6/6 sash and similar tripartite windows. The second floor mirrors this arrangement but has a central 1/1 sash, while the ground floor has similar windows. All windows feature cambered lintels.
On the ground floor, there is a central rectangular porch with a parapet. Facing the lane, a 6/6 sash window is set within a restored moulded stone frame, accompanied by a 2-light casement window on the right end of the porch and a restored moulded stone doorway on the left end, which contains a 6-panelled door and a narrow overlight. The left end of the house has mainly similar sash windows. The right end features a bow window with a 6/6 sash above and a 3/3 sash above that. The left end of the house reveals the original 18th-century gable end, which has a projecting stack and various blocked windows. There is a rubble stone plinth at the base of this section of the wall.
Extending from the left end of the house is a brick wall approximately 2.5 meters high that runs along Grange Lane. The Dower House is included for its group value.
Local climate
The Dower House and Wall receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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