The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-brick-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, 4, Nag's Head Lane, Avening, GL8 8NZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 890 979
- Coordinates
- 51.68058, -2.16018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is a house dated 1704, featuring the initials H E E 1704 above the door. It is constructed from coursed and dressed stone with a Cotswold stone slate roof and has two stone ridge stacks. The building consists of a single range with a 1973 wing added to the left. The south front has two gables in the center and one large gable to the north, with a former stable or animal house on the right now incorporated into the house.
The house is two storeys tall with an attic, which has a single stone light in each gable under a hoodmould. On the first floor, there are two 2-light stone mullion and transom windows, each with hoodmoulds. The ground floor features similar windows along with a central doorcase that has moulded jambs and a lintel, and a continuous hoodmould across the door and flanking windows. Above the door is an inscription panel and a sundial. The right-hand wing has three ground floor paired casements from the 20th century and a long double row of columbaria above, with one gabled dormer.
Local climate
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 greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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