Hardwick House Dower House Approximately 5 Metres West is a Grade I listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1985. A Late C17 House. 3 related planning applications.

Hardwick House Dower House Approximately 5 Metres West

WRENN ID
ragged-chancel-soot
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 August 1985
Type
House
Address
Hardwick House Dower House Approximately 5 Metres West, RG8 7RB
OS grid reference
SU 659 777
Coordinates
51.49484, -1.05176
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hardwick House, also known as the Dower House, is a house that likely dates from the late 17th century. It features a flint base and red brick with flared headers, topped by a plain tile roof. The building is arranged in a probably double-depth plan and has two stories with a three-window range. The central entrance consists of a four-panelled door set within a stone surround featuring a four-centred arch, with trefoil carvings in the spandrels and a hood mould above. On either side of the entrance, there are casement basement windows. The flint base is topped with moulded brick coping. The ground floor has three-light stone mullion windows with hood moulds on the left and right, while the first floor features three stone cross-windows, also with hood moulds. The roof is of two spans. At the rear, there are two likely 20th-century French windows with stone surrounds and hood moulds on the ground floor, and stone cross-windows with hood moulds on the first floor, both left and right. The right return displays irregular fenestration of stone mullioned and transomed cross-windows. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Hardwick House Dower House Approximately 5 Metres West sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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