The Dower House Including Front Wall with Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1972. House.
The Dower House Including Front Wall with Railings
- WRENN ID
- silver-parapet-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House Including Front Wall with Railings, High Street, Roydon
- OS grid reference
- TL 408 101
- Coordinates
- 51.77256, 0.04019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is a house dating from the 17th century, with red brick cladding added around 1700. It is timber framed and has a red plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring an L-shaped plan. The front has a stone coped parapet, which is decorated with flared headers. There are four early 18th century vertical sliding sash windows with glazing bars and exposed boxes. The entrance includes a panelled door set in a reeded case, adorned with concentric indents and topped with a flat hood supported by brackets. The house has a band and a moulded cornice, along with red brick chimney stacks. A late 19th century rear wing is also part of the structure. Additionally, there is a dwarf front wall with railings.
Local climate
The Dower House Including Front Wall with Railings sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% 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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