The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. A C17 House.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- standing-beam-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, Little Chart
- OS grid reference
- TQ 941 471
- Coordinates
- 51.19099, 0.77653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed building that has been refaced with red brick. At the east end, there is a timbered carriage archway topped with a tiled roof. To the west of this archway is an L-shaped house that stands two storeys high. The house features a tiled roof with a pentice on the north side, which has a chimney breast rising from it. There are two casement windows present. A modern addition is located further to the west.
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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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