The Dower House And Attached Cottage And Outbuilding

The Dower House, together with an attached cottage and outbuilding, dates to the late 17th or 18th century, with 19th-century additions to the rear and significant late 20th-century restoration work. The house is constructed of brick in a Flemish stretcher bond pattern, with a hipped and gabled old tile roof, brick cross-axial and lateral stacks featuring fillets and caps, and a similar end stack to the rear. It forms an L-shaped layout.

The main house is two storeys high with an attic, and has a three-window front plus a two-window cross-wing to the left. The front door is a four-panel design set within a moulded frame, topped by a consoled gabled hood. It is flanked by windows with brick flat arches above modern, small-paned cross-casements. The upper floor also has three windows, and a small two-light casement sits in the gable; the inner return has a single window on each floor. The left return has a large lateral stack and similar windows. The cross-wing’s right side and the entrance, accessed by steps, feature an original two-panel door in a heavy frame, with two-lights above. A 19th-century outbuilding, now a cottage, is attached to the wing, with a further outbuilding attached to the end.

The attached cottage is a single-storey building with an attic, linked to the rear of the cross-wing with a modillioned brick cornice. The left end has a canted back, with a renewed tile roof and end and cross-axial stacks. A wide segmental-headed entrance is centrally placed, with a modern small-paned glazed door and glazing to the side. There are also a segmental-headed entrance and window to the left end, and a window and entrance with a side light to the right end. Two gabled half-dormers are positioned on the left side, each with modern casements.

The outbuilding, also single-storey, is attached to the end and has a modillioned brick cornice and two wide openings. The rear has a blocked round-headed opening to the left of two wide entrances flanking a brick pier with rounded angles; a small return is on the right end.

Inside the house, some chamfered spine beams remain, and the hall has a large fireplace with a bressumer. The stair to the attic retains some 18th-century turned balusters, and the roof features exposed purlins. The cross-wing contains a stair between walls. The kitchen to the rear has a large fireplace with a chamfered bressumer and brick corbelling to the upper part of the fireplace; the rear door has strap hinges with fleur-de-lys ends. The first floor includes two bolection-moulded fireplaces and a cupboard with H-hinges. The cottage contains some exposed beams and a large recess, possibly for a fireplace. The outbuilding contains three king post trusses with cambered tie beams incorporating halved and crossed principals, which appear to have been reused. One end space has a bread oven and a copper with a lid.