Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House. 1 related planning application.
Dower House
- WRENN ID
- winding-fireplace-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dower House, 23, Bayley Street, Castle Hedingham, CO9 3DG
- OS grid reference
- TL 785 357
- Coordinates
- 51.99125, 0.59945
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dower House is a house that dates back to the 15th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions, as well as 19th and 20th century facing. It is timber framed, with the ground floor panel plastered. The first floors of the crosswings feature patterned hanging tiles, and the roofs are covered with red plain tiles and have pierced ridge tiles on the crosswings. The building has central, rear, and left red brick chimney stacks and is designed in an H-plan.
The house has two-storey gabled crosswings that are jettied, along with a two-storey lean-to extension on the right. The central hall is one storey high with attics that include two gabled dormers. All gables are adorned with 19th century brackets and moulded bargeboards. The window arrangement consists of a 1:2:1:1 pattern of 20th century casements, with one ground floor window being a small red tiled oriel supported by moulded brackets. The central entrance features a six-panelled door with plain pilasters and a flat moulded canopy on moulded brackets.
The hall house is reputed to contain remains of the original roof and two original doorways, and it is said to have a crown post roof construction in the southwest wing.
Local climate
Dower House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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