Stowford House

Stowford House is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, likely built in the 16th and 17th centuries, with an extension added in 1898 and renovated around 1980. The structure features plastered cob on stone rubble footings, while the plastered extension may be made of brick. It has stone rubble and brick stacks and a thatched roof.

The main block of the house, which faces southwest, has a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the inner room located at the right (southeastern) end. The hall includes a rear lateral stack, and the service end room has an end stack. There is a single-storey, one-room plan extension at a right angle to the rear of the left end, which features an inner lateral stack. The main block is two storeys high.

The front of the house has an irregular four-window arrangement with late 19th-century casements. All windows have glazing bars, and the top panes feature unusual arch-headed patterns of glazing bars. Similar windows are found at the rear and in the rear block. The front passage doorway is roughly central and contains a 20th-century door with a contemporary porch that has a hipped thatch roof supported by rustic posts. The roof is half-hipped on the right side and gable-ended on the left. There is also a 20th-century conservatory with a hipped thatch roof on the right end. The rear block is gable-ended and features a date plaque in the gable, which includes the initials of the Hon. Mark Rolle.

Although an interior inspection was not possible at the time of the survey, it is reported to include 16th and 17th-century carpentry details.