The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. House.

The Dower House

WRENN ID
old-loft-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
The Dower House, Iford, Lewes
OS grid reference
TQ 400 077
Coordinates
50.85269, -0.01132
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Dower House is an 18th-century building that stands two storeys tall and features two windows. It is constructed with flint and has red brick dressings and quoins. The roof is half-hipped and covered with tiles.

Local climate

The Dower House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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