Barn Cottage the Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1982. House.
Barn Cottage the Dower House
- WRENN ID
- ragged-porch-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Barn Cottage the Dower House, Daglingworth
- OS grid reference
- SO 996 048
- Coordinates
- 51.74262, -2.00673
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House and Barn Cottage is a detached house and adjoining converted barn located in Daglingworth. The building dates from the early 17th century and was extended in the mid-20th century in two phases. The original 17th-century section features pebble-dashed walls, while the extensions are made of random roughly squared limestone with a stone slate roof. There are 20th-century squared and dressed limestone stacks, as well as a red brick stack.
The structure has a rectangular plan with a baffle entry leading into the main body, which has 2 storeys and an attic, while the extensions are 1.5 storeys and single storey. The garden front has twin gables and is illuminated by 2 and 3-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods and leaded panes. A central double glass door with leaded panes is set within a hipped open-sided porch supported by two large tapering rectangular monoliths.
To the right, there is a single-bay extension with a 20th-century two-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned casement on the ground floor and a similar casement in the half dormer above. The left gable end features a rectangular bay window with single-light and 4-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned casements. The extensions at the rear have similar fenestration and some wooden casements. Access to the main body is through an early studded plank door with fleur de lys-ended strap hinges, located at the north-east corner of the 20th-century extension. This door is framed by a moulded almost flat Tudor-arched surround with an early lintel and carved spandrels displaying the initials 'R' and 'S', topped by a gabled porch with a Tudor arched entrance.
Barn Cottage has a garden front with 2-light wooden casements and timber lintels, and the upper floor is lit by four 2-light gabled half dormers. The building has axial and gable-end stacks. The interior of The Dower House has not been inspected but is said to have undergone substantial alterations in the 20th century.
Local climate
Barn Cottage the Dower House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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