The Dower House is a Grade II* listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1963. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- salt-timber-foxglove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, Goodnestone
- OS grid reference
- TR 279 534
- Coordinates
- 51.23461, 1.26461
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is a late 16th-century house located in Goodnestone, constructed of red brick using English and Header bonds, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building features two storeys and an attic above a basement, with a plinth and string course. Its roof has kneelered gables, with two projecting three-storey gables on the left and centre right, and a central hipped dormer. There are four moulded stacks positioned to the centre left. The house has two-light mullioned windows with labels in the gable heads, along with four-light and three-light mullioned windows on the first floor, and five-light mullioned and transomed windows in the central recessed area on each floor. To the right, there is one three-light leaded wooden casement on each floor and a basement opening. The porch features a rib and stud door to the centre right, with a four-centred arched surround. The porch doorway is also four-centred with a label and Arms above. This house was built as the Dower House to Knowlton Court.
Local climate
The Dower House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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