The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1955. House.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-plinth-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, Hall Place Lane, Hurley, SL6 6QY
- OS grid reference
- SU 838 814
- Coordinates
- 51.52609, -0.7923
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is a large house built in the 18th and 19th centuries, featuring a combination of brick and painted brick. It has an old tile roof with varying heights, including both gabled and hipped sections, and is designed in an H-plan layout. The house is two storeys tall and has two prominent chimneys on the part facing the road.
The east front, which faces the road, has three bays and includes sash windows with glazing bars: three on the first floor and two tripartite windows on the ground floor, located on either side of a 20th-century glazed door that has a moulded cornice and a projecting frame.
The west garden front is irregular in shape and features sash windows with glazing bars and wide architrave frames: there are four on the first floor and three tall sashes on the ground floor, along with a canted bay window on the right. To the left of center, there is a round-headed staircase window with glazing bars that radiate at the head. The Dower House is adjacent to The Old Cottage, which is listed separately. An interior inspection was not conducted during the survey.
Local climate
The 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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