The Dower House is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. A Late Georgian House. 1 related planning application.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- proud-ember-wagtail
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1954
- Type
- House
- Period
- Late Georgian
- Address
- The Dower House, West Wycombe, HP14 3AG
- OS grid reference
- SU 830 946
- Coordinates
- 51.64497, -0.80145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House, formerly known as The Vicarage, is a building from the late 18th century, around 1763. It is constructed of flint rubble with raised flint quoins and window dressings. The structure features a symmetrical arrangement with a central block that has two storeys and an attic, highlighted by a pedimented tetrastyle Greek Ionic portico on the east front at the ground floor. There are four windows on the ground floor, which are sashes, and on the first floor, there are casements under lintels. The attic has box dormer casements with glazing bars.
Flanking the central block are slightly recessed one-storey and attic wings, each topped with pedimented roofs. Each wing contains one sash window on the east side set in a flush arched panel, and the side return elevation features a central window in a similar arch, flanked by two semi-circular arched niches. The building is topped with Welsh slate roofs, which are nipped in the center with a circular stack at the apex. There are later extensions on the west side.
Local climate
The Dower House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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