Dowsetts

TL 50 NW MAGDALEN LAVER 5/37 Dowsetts

• II

Hall house, C16, extended in C17, C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. 2 bays aligned approx. N-S, with inserted chimney stack at S end, now mainly C20 brickwork. Floor inserted in hall and one bay added to S, C17. Lean-to extension at rear, C19, forming a catslide roof. Lean-to extensions to N and S, roofed with red clay pantiles, C19. C20 extension to SW. E elevation, halved door at front of tiled gabled porch, 5 casement windows, all C20, and 2 more in gabled dormers. Some framing exposed internally. Jowled posts, central tiebeam severed, edge-halved and bridled scarf in E wallplate, clasped pulin roof with straight wind bracing, lightly smoke-blackened. Inserted floor consisting of axial beam with unchamfered joists of vertical section supported on clamps. An indenture in the possession of the owner records a bargain and sale of the property to Richard Dowsett in 1688, the origin of the name.

Listing NGR: TL5114106627