The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. House.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- woven-ember-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, the Street, Layham
- OS grid reference
- TM 029 401
- Coordinates
- 52.02271, 0.95651
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is a building likely originating from the 17th century, but it has been significantly altered in the 18th and 19th centuries and has undergone renovations. The front of the house is mostly faced in painted brick, and it features a slate roof. The structure has two storeys, with a range of four small casement windows on the upper storey and two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars on the ground storey. There is a ridge chimney stack that has been rebuilt at the top with saw tooth shafting.
Local climate
The Dower House 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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