The Dower House

The Dower House is a house dating from the 17th century and early 18th century. It has one-and-a-half storeys and features a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The structure is timber-framed and has panels of simple comb-pargetting with a thatched roof. There is an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft and an end stack on the south side. The house has three early 18th-century mullion-and-transom windows with square-leaded panes, and four gabled dormers that contain two-light casement windows with square leaded panes. The entrance features a six-panelled door with raised fielded panels, an eared architrave, a bolection-moulded frieze, and a triangular pediment. There is little original framing visible.

Early 18th-century additions include a long single-storey lean-to on the rear wall, which has reused 17th-century casement windows with wrought-iron frames and diamond-leaded panes. Inside, there is a staircase beside the chimney stack with turned balusters and plain handrails, as well as a corner fireplace in the small south room that has an eared architrave and a bolection-moulded frieze similar to the outer doorcase. The roof, which features clasped purlins, lacks principal rafters and has a ridge piece, appears to have been replaced in the 18th century.