Dower House

Dower House, also known as Marlbrook Cottage, is a house dating from the late 17th to early 18th century. It is constructed of brick with storey bands at the first and attic floors on the front and sides, and a dentil course to the eaves at the rear. The roof is tiled with a brick-coped parapet to the gables. The building has projecting brick gable-end stacks – two with tiled offsets and diagonal shafts to the right, and a later single shaft to the left. The main range has a rear lean-to extension.

The south front has a four-window arrangement featuring 2- and 3-light casements in 20th-century oak frames, some of which are replacements. A central, lean-to entrance porch has a 20th-century casement over a brick round-arched opening with an ashlar keystone and springers, and a brick string course stepped over the arch. The door is boarded and set within an original oak door frame featuring a chamfer with ogee stops.

The left-hand gable end has a door frame with a chamfer and ogee stops to the left of a projecting stack, with a bread oven to the right. Windows have brick hoodmoulds at the first and attic floors, flanking the central stack; all are now brick-blocked except for a first-floor 20th-century casement in an original oak frame to the left of the stack. The right-hand gable end has two blocked windows on each floor, flanking the central stack. There is one unblocked single casement at first floor and a 2-light casement at ground floor. 20th-century fenestration is present in the lean-to on the right.

The rear of the house has scattered 20th-century windows and a boarded door with a chamfered door frame with ogee chamfer stops. The interior includes chamfered bridging beams with ogee stops. The attic stretches the full length of the house and was potentially used as a drying room.