The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Arun local planning authority area, England. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- lesser-footing-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Arun
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, the Street, Walberton
- OS grid reference
- SU 971 058
- Coordinates
- 50.84411, -0.62111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is an 18th-century building featuring two storeys and an attic. It has three windows and three dormers, all with intact glazing bars. The exterior is stuccoed and is topped with a tiled roof, accented by a modillion eaves cornice. A notable feature is the impressive doorway, which includes fluted columns, a pediment, a semi-circular blocked fanlight, and a door with six fielded panels. There is a later addition to the west of the building.
Local climate
The Dower House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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