Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Dower House
- WRENN ID
- haunted-rood-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dower House, Church Walk, North Petherton, TA6 6SE
- OS grid reference
- ST 289 329
- Coordinates
- 51.09167, -3.01522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dower House is an early 19th-century house in North Petherton. It is constructed of coursed rubble, with a hipped slate roof and brick stacks. The house is in a Gothick style. It has two storeys and a 1:1 bay arrangement, with the bay to the left projecting slightly. Windows are 2-light casements with glazing bars and marginal lights. A 6-panelled, glazed door is located in an opening to the right side of the projecting bay. A glazed porch extends to the right of the frontage and right return, featuring a roof that continues as a verandah supported by trelliswork. The porch roof is covered with Bridgwater patent tiles.
Local climate
Dower House receives an average of 830 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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