The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1966. House.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- turning-pavement-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, Buckland
- OS grid reference
- SU 344 981
- Coordinates
- 51.68075, -1.5031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is a house built around 1820, constructed of squared and coursed limestone with limestone ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof. It has a double-depth plan and is designed in the Regency style. The building is two storeys tall and features a three-window range. The entrance includes a semi-circular arch with a chamfered architrave leading to a six-panelled door, two of which are glazed, and a fanlight above. A Tuscan porch is present, topped with balcony railings. There is a semi-circular stone arch above the door, and flat stone arches are found over the first-floor sashes and on the ground floor. French windows open onto small railed balconies that are similar to the one above the porch. The eaves are broad and overhanging, and the roof is gabled in an M shape with gable end stacks. The rear elevation features flat stone arches over sashes that flank semi-circular stone arches over two central sashes. To the right, there is a one-bay extension built in a similar style and materials, which includes a late 19th-century gabled extension at the rear and right. Inside, there are six-panelled doors set in panelled reveals, and a straight flight staircase with winders and a wreathed handrail. The interior has only been partially inspected.
Local climate
The Dower House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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