Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Bexley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1980. House. 4 related planning applications.
Dower House
- WRENN ID
- tall-rafter-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bexley
- Constituency
- Old Bexley and Sidcup MP: Mr Louie French (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dower House, North Cray Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 487 721
- Coordinates
- 51.42873, 0.13834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dower House, built circa 1820, was constructed for Thorns Coventry and is now part of Goldsmiths’ College, London University. The house is arranged in an L-shape, with the entrance block situated in the re-entrant angle. It is a two-storey building with a high casement and is built of yellow brick. The building has deep eaves supported by paired wooden brackets, and a hipped, low-pitched slate roof with flat sections. The front elevation is irregularly fenestrated, featuring straight-headed and cambered sash windows. The garden front has a single window. The entrance features a three-window stuccoed canted bay with a window above, all with sash windows incorporating glazing bars and skewback heads, along with blind boxes. The surrounding grounds, originally laid out as a botanic garden, include remnants of brick walls and gateways, which are not considered of particular interest.
Local climate
Dower House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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 — 9 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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