The Dower House is a Grade II* listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1966. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- plain-arch-elder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, Cooper's Lane, Northaw and Cuffley, EN6 4NG
- OS grid reference
- TL 271 022
- Coordinates
- 51.70469, -0.16199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House, originally known as Fairlawn House, is a house built in 1749. Materials reused during construction are said to have come from the demolished canons at Edgware. The house has grey-header walls with red brick window jambs, rubbed brick lintels, and a cornice band. It is double-pile and three storeys high, with a basement. Five flat-headed recessed sash windows feature intact thick glazing bars. A notable Ionic wooden doorcase incorporates three-quarter columns, a pulvinated frieze, a modillioned pediment, and an acanthus sub-frieze. The interior reveals fielded paneling and includes a well-preserved, original baluster staircase located at the rear-centre of the house. An early 19th-century single-storey extension to the south features a canted bay window with weatherboarded casements.
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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- 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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