The Little Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1974. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Little Dower House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-mortar-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Little Dower House, 22, Greys Hill, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 1RY
- OS grid reference
- SU 760 824
- Coordinates
- 51.53596, -0.90509
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Little Dower House is a 16th to 17th century timber-framed building featuring colourwashed brick infill. It has an old tiled roof that is hipped at the west end, while the east end has a coped gable with a corner pier and a ball finial. The house is two storeys high and has five windows, primarily early 19th century casements with glazing bars. On the ground floor, there are two doors that each have small flat hoods supported by brackets. At the rear of the building, there is a one-storey painted outshut.
Local climate
The Little Dower House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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