Dower House Including Front Area Railings

Dower House, located on Fore Street in Holcombe Rogus, is an early 19th-century house, likely with an earlier core. It is constructed of plastered stone rubble, with some parts possibly made of cob, and features stone rubble stacks topped with 19th-century brick. The roof is slate, although it may have originally been thatched.

The house has a long, two-storey layout facing northeast, with a four-room plan that includes two rooms on either side of the entrance hall, which contains the main staircase. The room on the right end is an unheated service room that has been converted into a garage, while the chamber above retains a gable-end stack. The room to the right of center has an axial stack that backs onto the garage, and the room to the left of center features a rear lateral stack. The left end room also has a gable-end stack. A one-room service block projects at right angles to the rear left of center. Although the layout resembles that of a 16th-century hall house, there is no visible carpentry to confirm this.

The exterior features a regular three-window front, primarily concentrated at the left end. The ground floor has 19th-century casements with rectangular panes of leaded glass, while the first floor has 16-pane sash windows. The front doorway includes a 19th-century six-panel door with a contemporary flat hood supported by shaped timber brackets. The roof is gable-ended. The rear wall of the rear block has tall 12-pane sash windows, and the staircase is illuminated by a round-headed sash window with Y-tracery top glazing bars.

Inside, the house shows no joinery details earlier than the 19th century, and no carpentry is exposed. The first-floor rooms feature coved plaster ceilings, and the roof space is inaccessible, suggesting that earlier work may be concealed beneath 19th-century plaster.

A narrow strip of front garden is enclosed by mid-19th-century cast iron railings with ornate spearheads set into low stone rubble footings, and the gate matches this design. The Dower House is part of a group of attractive listed buildings in the center of Holcombe Rogus Village.