The Dower House

The Dower House, formerly known as Doveshill Farmhouse, is a former farmhouse with a late-medieval core and complex alterations from the 16th and 17th centuries. The building is mainly two storeys high, with a cross-wing that includes attics. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, topped with plaintiled roofs featuring axial and external end chimneys made of red brick. The first storey has 19th-century small-pane casements, while the ground storey features 20th-century casements. The wing contains small-pane 19th-century sash windows. There are two 20th-century boarded entrance doors, each with an open gabled plaintiled porch supported by wooden posts.

At the center of the house is a formerly open hall dating from the 15th century, or possibly the late 14th century, which features three mutilated trusses, one with a cambered tie-beam. A post in the hall is trenched for a passing-brace, suggesting it may have been reused from a 13th or 14th-century building. The tension-braced studwork displays prominent assembly marks on each stud. A hall window, which is blocked but intact, has square mullions. The coupled-rafter roofs are complete and heavily smoke-blackened.

The house was extended to the left in the 16th century, characterized by widely spaced studwork and long convex-arched windbraces. A parlour wing was added to the right around 1600, featuring plain framing and a well-constructed wind-braced side-purlin roof, which was further extended at the rear in the early 19th century. Additionally, a rear wing was added to the service end in the 17th century. A date of 1604 is associated with the house, likely relating to the parlour wing extension.