Dove'S House

Dove’s House is a house dating from the early 18th century, with elements from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and refurbished in the early 19th century. It is located in Ham Village. The house is built of brick, rendered on the front elevation, with timbering on the gable end and has a tiled roof. It is two storeys and has attics, with five window bays on the front and a three-bay rear wing. The layout includes a central through hall, a lateral staircase at the rear left, and flanking reception rooms. Service rooms are located in the rear wing. The front entrance features a six-panel door with a fanlight and a bracketed moulded canopy. The windows are sixteen-pane sashes, with the centre window raised as a tiled gable. The roof was probably refurbished in the early 20th century, and there are four-flue gable stacks. Inside, the ground floor room on the left has stepped, hollow moulded chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The staircase has refixed 17th-century panelling. A rear first-floor room is fully panelled. The mid-18th-century staircase has a fielded panelled dado and balustrade. The front block and rear wing have chamfered cross beams with ogee stops. The reception rooms have marble and wood fluted fireplace surrounds, shutters, and reveal panelling, all from the early 19th century. There is significant internal partitioning using stud and panel work, dating from the 17th or 18th centuries.