Dower Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1953. House.
Dower Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tangled-crypt-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dower Cottage, B4231, Newland
- OS grid reference
- SO 553 095
- Coordinates
- 51.78304, -2.64844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dower Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century. It has a roughcast exterior and a hipped roof covered with double Roman tiles. The building features a small rear stack and two stacks in the projecting gable wing on the north side, creating an L-shape. The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows, including one in the gable. The windows are casements, with two located to the left of the door, which has timber lintels above. The entrance features a panelled door topped by a flat plain stone hood supported on iron brackets, accessible by three stone steps.
Local climate
Dower Cottage 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 greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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