North Dean House the Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1955. House. 1 related planning application.

North Dean House the Dower House

WRENN ID
pitched-bronze-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1955
Type
House
Address
North Dean House the Dower House, Hughenden, HP14 4NG
OS grid reference
SU 854 981
Coordinates
51.67583, -0.76549
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

North Dean House and The Dower House are two houses that were originally a house and a service wing. The left range is possibly from the mid to late 18th century and was altered in the mid 19th century. The front range was remodeled in the early 20th century to reflect a mid 18th century style, and a service wing was added to the rear around 1920. The left side is rendered and colorwashed, while the rest is made of brick, topped with hipped old tile roofs and brick chimneys.

The building has two storeys and an attic. The front features narrow red and vitreous brick with moulded eaves. Quoins and pilaster strips flanking the door have one course of projecting rounded brick in every four. There is cogged brick above the central first-floor window. The facade includes seven bays of boxed sashes with segmental heads, three hipped dormers with paired leaded casements, and a central two-panel door with a flat wooden hood supported by scroll brackets.

The 1920s extension to the right matches the original style and has a semi-circular projection with three bays of sash windows. The right side features a three-bay centerpiece with a shaped parapet and a cluster of three complex chimney shafts. The left side has a first-floor band course and five bays of three-pane sashes. The central bay includes a two-storey gabled projecting porch with Tudor hoodmoulds over the upper sash and a glazed door. Inside, there is fake timber framing, along with fireplaces and a staircase designed in the Elizabethan style.

Local climate

North Dean House the Dower House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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