The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1983. House.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- slow-corbel-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, Longwood Estate, Tichborne, Winchester
- OS grid reference
- SU 543 249
- Coordinates
- 51.02141, -1.22679
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House, formerly known as Rosehill Cottage, is a house built around 1880, likely designed by G. Devey for Lord Northesk. The building features a combination of brick rendering, tile-hung, and half-timbered gables. It has two storeys and an attic, with two gables and a two-bay deep parallel range at the back, along with a one-bay wing to the left and a two-span block with an attached wing at the rear on the right.
The front of the house includes a two-storey canted bay with five-light casements on both floors and two-light casements in the gable on each side of the bay. There are giant pilasters flanking the bay, with a cornice running from each side at the first floor level. In the centre, there is a projecting full-height porch featuring a top-glazed timber structure on the ground floor, which is jettied all around. The first floor has a coved bressemer and rustic stucco quoins, along with a three-light casement. To the left, there are two-light cross windows on each floor, with rusticated quoins at the corners and a full-height canted bay on the left gable end.
Local climate
The Dower House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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