Bath House with First Floor Summer House in Grounds Immediately South West of Dowdeswell Court is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1986. Bath house, summer house.
Bath House with First Floor Summer House in Grounds Immediately South West of Dowdeswell Court
- WRENN ID
- dusk-trefoil-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1986
- Type
- Bath house, summer house
- OS grid reference
- SP 001 197
- Coordinates
- 51.87616, -1.99968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a bath house with a first-floor summer house, constructed in 1773. It features ashlar and ashlar-faced brick with a stone slate roof and has an octagonal plan. The ground floor is accessed from the east and provides entry to the summer house above. There are three small rectangular windows on the ground floor, while the first floor has openings for sash windows, including two blind windows with sashes painted onto recesses at the north-east corner. A band separates the ground and first floors. The structure is topped with a pyramidal roof that has a ball finial. On the ground floor, there is an octagonal cold plunge with steps leading down on the south side. The first-floor summer house includes a contemporary fireplace adorned with egg and dart mouldings and cornucopias on the frieze, featuring an over mantel with a central oval plaque depicting a naked woman and a swan-necked pediment above. Additionally, there is a contemporary ceiling rose.
Local climate
Bath House with First Floor Summer House in Grounds Immediately South West of 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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