Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. House.
Dower House
- WRENN ID
- kindled-hall-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dower House, Up Cerne
- OS grid reference
- ST 657 028
- Coordinates
- 50.82456, -2.48817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dower House, formerly known as The White House, is a house from the early 19th century. It features rendered, colourwashed walls and a hipped slate roof, with a rendered stack at the left eaves. The facade is symmetrical, consisting of two storeys and a three-window range. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, and there is a recessed six-panel door topped by a round fanlight.
Local climate
Dower House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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