The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1986. A Georgian House. 2 related planning applications.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-finial-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Chichester MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Dower House, Park Lane, West Dean, Chichester, PO18 0QY
- OS grid reference
- SU 859 126
- Coordinates
- 50.90659, -0.77826
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is an early to mid 19th century double L-shaped building located on West Dean Park Lane, also referred to on maps as West Dean Cottage. It stands two storeys tall and features five windows. The exterior is faced with flints and has red brick dressings and quoins. A castellated parapet crowns the structure, and it has a tiled roof with casement windows. In 1973, it was converted into a student hostel for West Dean College.
Local climate
The Dower House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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