The Dower House

TL 9879-9979 HOPTON COMMON ROAD

3/37 The Dower House 14.7.55 GV II

House. C17 and early C18. One-and-a-half storeys: 3-cell lobby-entrance plan. Timber-framed; plastered in panels of simple comb-pargetting; thatched roof. An internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft, and an end stack on the south. 3 3-light early C18 mullion-and-transome windows with square-leaded panes, and 4 gabled dormers with square leaded panes to 2-light casement windows. 6-panelled door: raised fielded panels; eared architrave, bolection-moulded frieze, triangular pediment. Little original framing visible. Early C18 additions include the long single-storey lean-to on the rear wall, which has reused C17 casement windows with wrought-iron frames and diamond-leaded panes; the stair beside the chimney-stack, with turned balusters and plain handrails, and the corner fireplace in the small south room, with eared architrave and bolection-moulded frieze similar to the outer doorcase. The roof, which has clasped purlins, no principal rafters and a ridge-piece, also appears to be an C18 replacement.

Listing NGR: TL9964279623