3 and 4, Stow Road

Nos. 3 and 4, Stow Road are a pair of council houses designed in 1892 and built between 1893 and 1894 by Mr. Whitmore, the Suffolk County Surveyor, for Thingoe Rural District Council. They are constructed of red brick with slate roofs featuring ridge crests and a central shared chimney stack.

These two-story semi-detached houses include rear single-story back kitchens, wash houses, and lavatories. They have timber casement windows set beneath arched brick heads and timber doors with toplights. A single sill band runs along the first floor. The interiors have not been inspected.

These houses are part of a group of four pairs believed to be the first rural council housing built in England under the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. This act was significant as it allowed local authorities to acquire and develop land for housing, although it was adopted by only eight rural authorities at the time, despite the poor housing conditions faced by agricultural laborers that were comparable to those in inner cities. The houses remain in little-altered condition.