The Dower House East And The Dower House West

The Dower House East and The Dower House West is a house with an early 17th-century core, possibly originally a bastle, which was enlarged and remodeled in the mid- and later 18th century as the dower house of the Styford Estate, with alterations in the 19th century. The building is constructed of rubble, except for squared stone at the west end of the north-west wing, while the south front is rendered. It features a stone slate roof on the main range and slate roofs on the rear.

The south front is two stories high with seven irregular bays. There is a renewed door between bays five and six and a blocked door in bay seven. Most windows are sashes that have lost their glazing bars, and there is a tromp l'oeil window on the first floor in bay seven. The gables are coped with moulded kneelers, and there are three stepped stone stacks at the left end and along the ridge.

On the left return, the two-bay end of the north-west wing is set forward and features rusticated quoins, a chamfered plinth, and sill strings. It has 12-pane sashes in architraves and a central 8-pane attic sash in a raised stone surround, topped with a coped gable and kneelers. The rear elevation reveals the gable end of a mid-18th-century stair wing, which has a round-headed 12-pane sash with radial glazing in the head, set in a surround with raised imposts and a keystone. This stair wing is set back between a later 18th-century north-west wing to the right and a pair of gabled wings from the late 18th or early 19th century to the left.

Inside, Dower House West features a stair with an open string, stick balusters, and a ramped moulded handrail, along with moulded newels and carved tread ends. The drawing room in the north-west wing has a dentil cornice and six-panel doors in panelled architraves. Dower House East displays walls that are 0.9 meters thick (in bays four to six of the main range), old chamfered beams, and an 18th-century fireplace with a decorative cast-iron door for a baking oven and a round-arched recess for a set pot.