The Dowes House And Home Farmhouse

SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD PLUM LANE SP 2617-2717 (north side) 7/88 The Dowes House and 2.9.86 Home Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse, now divided. C16 origins, the existing building is C17, altered in the mid Cl9. Rubble with Cotswold stone roofs. Irregular plan, roughly L-shaped. The west range (Dowes House) 2 storeys and gables, the right-hand one with ashlar chimney. 1:3:1 windows irregular, 2 gabled dormers to centre part, French casements to ground floor right gable, rebated surround to former mullion window to left-hand gable; the principal feature is an ashlar chimney to right of centre: it serves the right-hand wing and has a gable at a different angle to the main roof. The left- hand wing (to north) has mullioned windows on return fronts. East front: again the main feature is the chimney at the base of which is a rounded projection for the stairs. The east range is a long range hipped to left-hand side with irregular gables to south and mullioned windows. It formerly housed the dairy and domestic quarters of Dowes House (formerly called Upper Farmhouse).

Listing NGR: SP2791617393