Dower House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1960. A C17 Cottage.
Dower House Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eastward-parapet-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dower House Cottage, Westcote
- OS grid reference
- SP 219 207
- Coordinates
- 51.88503, -1.68254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dower House Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the mid-17th century. It is built of limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins and features a stone slate roof with a stone ridge and ashlar stacks on the main body. The weatherboarded extension has an artificial stone slate roof. The cottage has a rectangular plan and includes a 20th-century lean-to at the rear and a 20th-century garage extension on the left gable end. It has one and a half storeys with a gablet positioned off-centre to the left.
On the ground floor, there are two three-light and one small single-light metal casement windows, all with timber lintels. The upper right features a two-light raking dormer with a 19th-century casement, and there is a two-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casement with a stopped hood at the gablet. A similar gablet is located at the rear. The front door, which is a 20th-century plank door, is positioned off-centre to the left and has a timber lintel. The left side has a one and a half storey 20th-century extension with a weatherboarded front, and there is a single-storey 20th-century lean-to at the rear. The cottage has gable-end and axial stacks, both featuring moulded cappings and skirtings, flat coped gables, and a roll-cross saddle at the right gable end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Dower House Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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