The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-pier-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, 26, Lower Street, Thriplow and Heathfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 435 464
- Coordinates
- 52.09734, 0.09412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is a house dating from the late 17th century, with 19th-century alterations. It is timber-framed and plastered, featuring low-pitched hipped and gable roofs covered with slates. The building has painted brick chimney stacks, including four side stacks and a central rectangular ridge stack. The main range is two storeys high, with single-storey wings on either side. There is a lean-to closed porch that has a 19th-century flush-panelled door with a rectangular glazed panel in the entry lobby. On the ground floor, there are two flush-framed sixteen-paned hung sash windows with boarded shutters, and two similar windows on the first floor. The wings have hung sash canted bay windows.
Local climate
The Dower House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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