Gower House is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Gower House
- WRENN ID
- small-facade-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gower House, High Street, Thorpe-Le-Soken
- OS grid reference
- TM 178 224
- Coordinates
- 51.85798, 1.16168
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gower House is a house, dating to the 17th century, altered in the 19th century. It is now used as two shops and a house. The building is timber-framed, with weatherboarding and plaster, and has a roof of handmade red clay tiles. It has three bays facing southwest, featuring a central stack and rear extensions. The house has two storeys. The ground floor has two early 19th-century bow shopfronts, both altered with late 19th-century sash windows. The first floor has two late 19th-century sash windows. The entrances consist of two half-glazed doors and one plain boarded door. There is a dentilled and moulded eaves cornice. The chimney is truncated just above the roof. It has old cast iron guttering fixed to wrought iron brackets. Inside, there are chamfered axial and transverse beams.
Local climate
Gower House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 18 transactions since 1997
- 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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