Great Dowles

Great Dowles is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the 18th century. It features a red brick front elevation in Flemish bond, while the gable ends and rear are in English bond. The building has a plain tile roof and is double depth, comprising two storeys, an attic, and a cellar. Notable architectural details include a chamfered brick plinth, a rubbed brick plat band that is interrupted over the door, and a moulded wooden eaves cornice. The steeply-pitched hipped roof has hips that return to the rear, with stacks located at both the left and right sides.

The front facade has a regular arrangement of five windows, each with twelve-pane sashes that have thin glazing bars and are set in open boxes. The ground floor features similar but longer windows, with splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. The central entrance door consists of six fielded panels and is topped with a decorative rectangular fanlight, along with a flat corniced and bracketed hood. There is also a fire insurance plaque present.

Inside, the staircase is adorned with slender turned balusters and a shaped handrail. The left ground-floor room has an ovolo-moulded axial beam with a panelled soffit, along with a similar cross beam in the rear left room. The right ground-floor room features a chamfered axial beam and a boxed axial beam in the rear. A painted brick fireplace with a bressumer is located in the front right room. The roof structure includes staggered butt purlins, and there are panelled doors throughout.