Dover Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Dover Castle
- WRENN ID
- third-window-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dover Castle, Watery Lane, Tring Rural, HP23 4PJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 896 147
- Coordinates
- 51.82433, -0.70108
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dover Castle is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. The structure is timber-framed, with a stucco sill, painted brick infill, and brick casing to the ground floor. It has a steep thatched roof, half-hipped at the east end. The house is a long, one-and-a-half-storey building facing south, featuring an internal chimney. It has three windows on the north side, with two swept dormers above, and a projecting porch and stairwell by the chimney, also with a dormer above. The south side has two windows and dormers, with a 20th-century semi-circular bay window to the left of the front door. The windows are small-pane casements. The side walls have wide panels framing the structure. The east gable contains a collar and three studs above a wavy tie-beam. Tall studs are visible below the end rail at a mid-height.
Local climate
Dover Castle sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 3 transactions since 2002
- 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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