Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1967. House.
Dower House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-shingle-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dower House, Stepps Road, Axmouth
- OS grid reference
- SY 270 904
- Coordinates
- 50.70895, -3.0346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dower House is a house that dates from the 16th or 17th century. It is built of flint rubble with stone dressings and features a thatched roof with gabled and hipped ends. The house has two storeys and a range of four windows. The windows are two and three-light ovolo moulded stone mullion windows with dripmoulds. There is a central doorway with a wooden lintel and a 20th-century door. A stone chimney stack is located at one gable end, with another chimney stack at the opposite end over the ridge. The south side has 20th-century casement windows. The building was previously listed as Bindon Cottage.
Local climate
Dower House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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