The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1974. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- silent-attic-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, 21, Woolley Street, Bradford-On-Avon, BA15 1AD
- OS grid reference
- ST 828 609
- Coordinates
- 51.34743, -2.24708
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is an early 19th-century detached house built in a plain Regency style. It is constructed of cream-washed ashlar with a hipped slate roof and deeply projecting eaves. The house has two storeys and a slate-hung attic dormer. It features three windows, with sash windows in reveals and glazing bars. The central door is set within a semi-circular-headed opening with a fanlight, also with glazing bars, and is flanked by a panelled door. The central portion of the facade, containing the door and a window above, projects forward slightly. A plain string course runs along the first-floor level. A verandah with a "tent" canopy and ornamental wrought-iron supports covers the ground-floor windows and door. The house forms a group with numbers 1 to 21 (odd), along with the gate piers and walls at number 21.
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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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