The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

The Dower House

WRENN ID
stony-mullion-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 July 1987
Type
House
Address
The Dower House, the Street, St. Paul Malmesbury Without, SN16 0EX
OS grid reference
ST 932 833
Coordinates
51.54913, -2.09869
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Dower House is a former farmhouse that has been converted into a detached house. It has an early 18th century core at the rear, with a mid-19th century addition to the south-east, which is dated 'RHP/1842' on the south-west gable. There is also a later 19th century addition to the north-east wall, featuring a Hungerford Pollen crest above the doorway. The building is constructed from coursed rubble for the core ranges and the side walls of the 1842 block, with squared and coursed rubble on the south-east front, stone dressings, and ashlar copings. The roofs at the rear are covered with concrete tiles, while the south-facing roofs have stone slates and end brick stacks. The house has a T-shaped plan, with the core range at the rear of the 1842 block and a late 19th century dairy or cheese room addition to the right of the main block.

The south-east front is two stories high with three windows. The windows are three-light chamfered mullions; the ground floor windows have 2-pane timber casements, while the upper floor windows feature octagonal glazed cast iron casements. There is a central gabled porch with a stone slate roof, which has a Tudor-arched entrance with a Pollen crest above and a Pollen pelican at the apex of the gable. The porch contains a six-panel door with two top lights, and there is an additional plank door leading to the dairy or cheese room on the right.

Local climate

The Dower House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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