The Dower House

The Dower House, formerly known as The Rectory, is a house dating from the late 16th century, with extensions added in the 18th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered, along with red brick in Flemish bond, and is topped with handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of three bays oriented approximately north to south, with an internal chimney stack located in the northern bay, which creates a lobby entrance to the west that is now blocked. There is an external chimney stack to the east of the southern bay, which is enclosed in an 18th-century parallel range. A stair tower is situated in the northeast angle, and there is a northern extension to the main range from the late 18th century, topped with a pyramidal roof.

The house is two storeys high with attics. On the west elevation, the ground floor includes one double-hung sash window without glazing bars, one bay window with a tiled hipped roof, one splayed bay window with a flat roof, and one late 19th or early 20th-century casement window. The first floor features one double-hung sash window with four lights and two late 19th or early 20th-century casement windows. The south elevation has a six-panel door set in a simple doorcase with a shallow hood supported by brackets, dating from the late 18th century.

Inside, the south ground floor room has an axial beam that is plain-chamfered with step stops, and the joists are plastered to the soffits. There is a recessed semi-circular cupboard in the eastern wall to the north of the stack, which is from the 18th century. In the next room to the north, there is another axial beam that is plain-chamfered, with exposed joists of a horizontal section, and a contemporary wood-burning hearth that has been reduced for use with a coal fire. The roof features clasped purlins.