Dower House is a Grade II* listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Dower House
- WRENN ID
- stranded-copper-pearl
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dower House, Roydon Hall Road, East Peckham, TN12 5NH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 664 517
- Coordinates
- 51.24024, 0.38291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dower House is a house built around 1690, likely representing the near-complete rebuilding of an earlier structure from the same century. It features red brick with blue headers and has a heavily moulded cornice with volute brackets and modillions, concealing lead gutters beneath a hipped tiled roof that includes two hipped dormers. The building has a brick plinth and a plat band, with a slightly projecting central bay that is accentuated by pilaster strips on either side of a central brick panel. The house is two storeys high and consists of seven bays, with glazing bar sash windows that have gauged flat arched heads. There is a modern Corinthian porch at the entrance. The return fronts have four bays, and the west side includes a canted bay on the ground floor to the left. At the rear, there is a single-storey brick wing from the 19th century.
Inside, there is a balustered open-well staircase from around 1700, which has a bracketed modillion cornice in the stair hall. The hall features a 19th-century fireplace, while the drawing room has an early 18th-century wood fireplace and 18th-century panelling. The sitting room also contains an 18th-century fireplace.
Local climate
Dower House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- 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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