The Old Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1966. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Dower House
- WRENN ID
- sharp-barrel-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Dower House, Church Street, Maiden Bradley with Yarnfield, BA12 7HW
- OS grid reference
- ST 802 387
- Coordinates
- 51.14729, -2.28419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Dower House is a detached house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of stucco with a hipped Welsh slate roof and brick stacks. The main front has three windows, with a central door featuring four round-arched panels and a semi-circular fanlight set within panelled surrounds, flanked by Ionic pilasters from a removed portico. The centre bay projects slightly, and the ground floor has 12-pane sashes with margin panes. The first floor mirrors this with three 12-pane margin-pane sashes. A bay window with French windows is present on the left return, alongside a 19th-century conservatory. The right return features a 3-light leaded casement, a 30-pane sash, and a planked door leading to the service areas. A two-storey rear wing on the south side is original and contains 20-pane and 16-pane sashes. A later 19th-century wing on the north side has 12-pane sashes. The interior retains original features, including an open stair hall with stick balusters and a continuous wreathed handrail. Various doors, including 8-panelled ground floor doors likely moved from Bradley House, are present. The drawing room has a grey marble fireplace, and the dining room features a late 19th-century Elizabethan-style fireplace and plaster frieze.
Local climate
The Old Dower House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2021
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings