The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- other-span-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, Hull Place, Sholden
- OS grid reference
- TR 357 527
- Coordinates
- 51.22559, 1.37522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is a 17th-century house constructed from red brick and flint, set on a rendered base and topped with a plain tiled roof. It has one storey and an attic, raised on a plinth, featuring three buttresses and a plat band. The roof includes three hipped dormers and has stacks positioned to the left and centre right, along with a kneelered parapet gable on the left side. The building has three segmentally headed wooden casements and one wooden casement in an extension at the left end. To the right, there is a door with three moulded panels, framed by a moulded architrave and topped with an open segmental pediment. The front displays iron wall ties, which are partly obscured, with at least one marked as P and H on the south front. At some point in its history, the building was used as a village school.
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- 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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