The Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Dower House
- WRENN ID
- final-corner-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dower House, Follifoot, HG3 1LL
- OS grid reference
- SE 335 535
- Coordinates
- 53.9771, -1.48981
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dower House is a house dating to the late 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed of coursed gritstone with a stone slate roof. Originally, it comprised two storeys and three bays. The front features a 20th-century panelled door within a chamfered surround with a dripmould, positioned to the right of centre, with a small window to its left. The ground floor has five-light recessed chamfered mullion windows, while the upper floor has three- and four-light mullion windows, all with dripmoulds. Ashlar gable coping and corniced end stacks are also present. Lower, two-storey, three-bay extensions are attached to the left and right sides, along with a 20th-century extension and further alterations. The Dower House is part of a larger group of buildings, originally shown as The Stables on Ordnance Survey maps, which were converted around 1975 into private houses, now known as Rudding Dower.
Local climate
The Dower House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1996
- 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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