Ower House is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1988. A Early Victorian House. 1 related planning application.
Ower House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-bronze-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ower House, Fawley, SO45 1BE
- OS grid reference
- SU 470 018
- Coordinates
- 50.81426, -1.33293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ower House is a house dating from around 1830. It has a roughcast exterior with a slate roof and end brick chimneystacks. The building consists of two parallel ranges, is two storeys high, and features three windows. The entrance is located on the left side elevation. There are two gables with wooden bargeboards, and on the first floor, there are two early 19th-century 12-pane sash windows set in cambered architraves. The ground floor has a similar window on the left and a tall modern 24-pane sash on the right. The doorcase features an open wooden pediment supported by curved brackets, pilasters, and a round-headed doorcase with a semi-circular fanlight, panelled reveals, reeded architraves with square floral paterae, and a six fielded panelled door.
The garden elevation includes three 12-pane sashes with cambered architraves on the first floor and three full-height French windows on the ground floor, with 16-pane double doors behind folding shutters. The rear elevation has right side chimneystacks and two early 19th-century flat-roofed dormers with 16 panes in moulded architraves. On the first floor, there is one mid-19th-century 9-pane sash with horns, while the others are 20th-century casements. The ground floor features four 20th-century casements (one metal framed), a 20th-century door, and a low 14-pane window from the 19th century with a centre opening.
Attached to the house by a wall is an L-shaped wing used for stabling and domestic offices, built in the early to mid-19th century. This single-storey structure is made of painted brick, with part of the roof covered in slate and part in tiles. The slate-roofed section, likely from the mid-19th century, has five openings with planked doors and a verandah supported by three wooden piers. The tiled section, originally stabling, has two 8-pane windows, a blocked central opening, and the remains of a wooden pump with a stone horseshoe-shaped bowl. There are modern garage doors on the left side.
Inside the house, the lounge and dining room are connected by six fielded panelled double doors, and there is a cornice featuring plumed decoration and floral motifs. The first floor has some two-panelled doors, and the top of the staircase retains early 19th-century stick balusters and a turned newel post. The roof features through purlins.
Local climate
Ower House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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