The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. A Georgian House. 2 related planning applications.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- sombre-thatch-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Dower House, 41, High Street, Long Melford, C10 9BD
- OS grid reference
- TL 869 475
- Coordinates
- 52.09455, 0.72793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is an early 19th-century brick house located on the west side of High Street in Long Melford. The front features grey gault brick, while the north and south sides are adorned with flint pebble panels. The building is two storeys tall and has cellars, with a three-window range of double-hung sash windows that include glazing bars set in shallow reveals. The central doorway is topped by a semi-circular fanlight, and there is a raised stucco band that runs across the front between the storeys. The roof is hipped and covered with slate, featuring two rectangular chimney stacks.
Local climate
The Dower House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- 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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