The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1981. House. 7 related planning applications.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- long-doorway-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, Church Road, Bitton, BS30 6LJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 682 692
- Coordinates
- 51.42168, -2.45864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House has origins dating back to the 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 19th centuries. It is constructed from coursed rubble and features quoins, topped with a pantile roof. The building has one and a half storeys and displays three dormer gables on the front. There are three windows with 19th-century stone mullioned casements, and original dripmoulds can be seen above the attic windows. A continuous weathered string runs along the ground floor windows, which have flush relieving arches, a characteristic of the late 17th century. On the left side, there are two dormer gables, along with an extension that includes a doorway and similar window treatment. Inside, there is an early 18th-century staircase at the rear, which was imported from another building and remodeled. This staircase features a carved cut string, turned balusters, a wide handrail, and patched-up panelling below. The ceilings on the first floor are made from the panelled pew ends that were removed from the parish church.
Local climate
The Dower House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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