The Old Dower House

UFFORD LOWER STREET TM 25 SE (North side) 9/147 16/3/66 The Old Dower House (formerly listed as Red House) - II

House, built as a rectory. Mid C18. For Jacob Chilton, (rector 1725- 1765). Red Flemish bond brick with a plain tile roof. Two storeys with attic. Entrance front: 3 bays symmetrically disposed. Central doorway with classical surround with panelled reveal. Door of 6 raised and fielded panels with fanlight which projects into an open dentilled pediment supported by scroll brackets. To either side of this are mid-C19 canted bay windows which have hipped C20 roofs. To the first floor are a central sash window of 3 x 4 panes and at either side tripartite windows with central sashes of 3 x 4 panes and lateral sashes of 1 x 4 panes. All have heads of gauged brick. The surrounds to the lateral windows appear to be of renewed brick. Dentilled cornice below the eaves. Three dormer windows to the attic with flat roofs, each having sashes of 3 x 2 panes. Left hand side: two gables, the right hand one being blank and the left hand one having to its right hand side sash windows to the ground and first floors, each of 3 x 4 panes. Chimney stacks flush with each gable and each of 3 flues. Right hand side: projecting C19 wing with a 1/2-glazed door and cambered head. Two-light cambered-headed window to left of this and a 3- light window at right and a ribbon window to the first floor. To left is a further outshut, slightly recessed, with a cambered-headed 2-light window at right and a 1/2-glazed door with cambered head to left of centre. Three- light cambered-headed window to left of it and to right a sash window of 3 x 4 panes. To the first floor are 3 sash windows, each of 3 x 4 panes. The attic has a central 2-light dormer with two lateral single-light dormers. Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TM2981852121