Oubuilding Approximately 5 Metres North Of Dowrich House

This outbuilding, located approximately 5 meters north of Dowrich House, is a Grade II listed structure. It is a farmhouse that has been converted into a kitchen, bakehouse, and store. The building likely dates from the late 15th century and was remodeled in the mid 16th century. It features plastered cob over exposed rubble and has a volcanic stone stack that has been partly rebuilt with 19th-century brick. The roof is slate, replacing an earlier thatch.

The outbuilding is a gable-ended, one-room block that faces southeast and has a massive stack at the northeast end, along with a small room projection from that end. It is two stories tall and has a regular three-window front, predominantly featuring late 19th-century casements with glazing bars. The central first-floor three-light casement has a late 17th-century frame with flat-faced mullions and shallow ogee internal mouldings. There are doors at either end of the building.

On the rear wall, there is a mid 16th-century oak two-light window with a chamfered and pyramid-stopped mullion to the right, alongside a 19th-century two-light casement with a fixed pane of small leaded panes to the left. The interior boasts a five-bay roof supported by side-pegged jointed cruck trusses, which include three sets of chamfered butt purlins and a ridge. The roof is completely smoke-blackened, indicating that the original house was divided by low partitions and heated by an open hearth fire. It originally extended further southwest but was reduced in size in the mid 16th century when it was floored and fitted with a massive bakehouse/kitchen fireplace.

Chamfered crossbeams rest on oak posts with jowled heads. The fireplace retains the volcanic jambs of the 16th-century fireplace, although the lintel and much of the chimney breast have been rebuilt in brick in the early 19th century. On the first floor, there is a door to the left of the stack leading to a tiny closet on a solid stone base, which includes a small square-headed window made from a single piece of oak. This outbuilding may have served as the manor house before a new house was built nearby in the mid 16th century, at which point it was converted into a detached kitchen and bakehouse.