Dower House

Dower House, located on Wimborne Road in Kinson, is a late 18th-century building that has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of brick, pebble-dashed, rendered, and painted, with plain tiles on the front roof pitch and a mix of late 20th-century concrete tiles and some Welsh slate on the outshut. The house is two storeys tall with an attic and features three bays, a two-storey wing at the rear right, an outshut across most of the rear, and a single-storey wing to the rear left.

The central entrance consists of a door with six raised and fielded panels beneath a fanlight adorned with radial glazing bars, all set within a reveal. The wooden doorcase includes an archivolt and pilasters on wreath-decorated plinths, topped by console-bracketed capitals that support an open dentilled pediment. On either side of the entrance are 19th-century canted bay windows with four lights and sash windows, featuring nine panes in the upper sashes and hipped, plain tile roofs. The first floor has flush four-pane sashes with keystones, and a Phoenix fire insurance plaque is positioned between two of the windows on the right. There are three hipped dormers with six-pane sashes and corniced brick end stacks.

At the rear, the left wing has a horned 12-pane sash window on the first floor, while the right wing, which was formerly an outbuilding, contains a 19th-century two-light casement window, a mid-20th-century window, and a board stable door on the right. The right return of the main range features a horned 12-pane sash window on each floor. The wing has render incised to resemble ashlar, a mid-20th-century door with side-windows, and a 12-pane casement window above in a wider architrave, with a stack at the right end.

Inside, the rear left-hand wing includes a large fireplace that once had a bread oven and a queen-strut roof truss. The main range features a central full-height closed-string dog-leg staircase with square-section balusters and newels. In the attic, the beams have roll-moulded arrises, and there is a centre-folding board door at the top of the stair with old hinges, along with a similarly-hinged door leading to one of the attic rooms.