West Bow is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1966. House.
West Bow
- WRENN ID
- blind-chapel-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1966
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Bow is a house dating from 1740, which is a remodelling of a 17th-century structure. It features a roughcast front made of coursed limestone rubble and has a gabled stone slate roof. The house has symmetrical end stacks, with a brick stack on the left and a stone stack on the right. The layout is a three-unit plan with two storeys and a three-window range at the front.
A flat hood with carved brackets covers an early 19th-century six-panelled door, which has two glazed panels. To the right of the door is a 19th-century two-light casement window, and to the left are three 8-pane sash windows. The first floor has three-light leaded casements on either side of the datestone, which reads "IHE/March ye ii/1740". The house also features a dentilled cornice.
To the right of the main house is a 19th-century outbuilding made of similar materials, which includes a 19th-century plank door next to a 19th-century three-light casement window with one opening pane. There is an early 19th-century six-panelled door at the rear. The rear wing, dating from the 18th century, has one storey and an attic, constructed with similar materials, and includes a 17th-century two-light wood-mullioned window with ovolo moulding on the right side wall.
Inside, the house has cased beams and an open fireplace on the left, flanked by a cupboard and a fielded panelled door leading to a winder staircase. The winder stairs are adjacent to the open fireplace, which has a moulded overmantel to the right. On the first floor, there are 18th-century two-panelled and plank doors, and chamfered beams. The left room contains an 18th-century panelled spice cupboard and a mid-18th-century fireplace with a moulded overmantel. A plank door leads to the winder stairs that ascend to the attic, which features a three-bay post-and-pad roof made of heavy scantling with clasped purlins.
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