The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1986. House.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- still-arch-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, Pontesbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 410 064
- Coordinates
- 52.65288, -2.8735
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is an early 19th-century house featuring a painted brick facade with uncoursed limestone rubble behind and a slate roof. It has a lobby-entry plan and stands two storeys tall, with a dentilled eaves cornice. The front has three windows with glazing bar sashes, and there is a 20th-century boarded door located under a late 19th-century flat-roofed trellised porch. A central red brick stack is positioned in the roof slope just in front of the ridge. At the rear, there is a contemporary two-storey outshut with a catslide roof, along with a single-storey addition set back to the left.
Local climate
The Dower House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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