The Headmasters House, Dowdeswell Court is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1986. Coach house, stabling, house.
The Headmasters House, Dowdeswell Court
- WRENN ID
- nether-window-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1986
- Type
- Coach house, stabling, house
- OS grid reference
- SP 002 197
- Coordinates
- 51.8759, -1.99806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Headmaster's House at Dowdeswell Court is a former coach house, stabling, and residence built in the 19th century. It is constructed of ashlar stone with a slate roof and an artificial stone stack, featuring a 'U'-shaped plan. There are 20th-century extensions at the rear, one on the right and a flat-roofed extension on the left, which are not of special interest. The building is two stories high and has a window arrangement of 1:3:1, with six-pane sash windows on the first floor and mostly twelve-pane sashes on the ground floor, all with horns on the first-floor windows. The right and left bays project slightly from the facade and are accented with rusticated quoins and a triangular pediment at the parapet level. The ground floor windows between the pedimented bays have moulded architraves, and pilasters and quarter pilasters flank the windows of the central three bays. There are two blocked carriage arches in the rear wall of the main body and a blocked entrance on the rear left, also with rusticated quoins. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Headmasters House, Dowdeswell Court receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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