The Dower House

The Dower House is a large house from the early to mid-17th century, constructed of limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins. It features an artificial stone slate roof and ashlar stacks, with a rectangular plan. There is a significant 20th-century Cotswold-style extension at right angles, which is not of special interest. The facade is almost symmetrical, with twin gables and three windows. The house has two storeys and an attic, with two 4-light stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods on the ground floor, and a single-light casement with a stopped hood between them. The first floor has two 3-light and one 2-light stone-mullioned casement, while each gable is lit by a 2-light stone-mullioned casement. All casements are double-chamfered, featuring hollow-moulded mullions and leaded panes. The central entrance has a double 20th-century plank door set within a dressed Tudor-arched stone surround. There are stone-mullioned casements, some of which are late 19th or 20th-century replacements, in the left gable end and at the rear. The roof has flat coped gables, with a twin right gable-end stack that has flat-chamfered cappings and skirtings, and a chimney gable with a twin stack at the rear.

Inside, there is a large Tudor-arched inglenook fireplace with a moulded surround and carved spandrels, along with a moulded capping. An early plank door leads to the stairs, and there is a 17th-century carved oak panel above it, along with three carved oak panels to the right of the door. The first floor rooms contain two small Tudor-arched fireplaces. One room features a fielded panelled frieze, with some panelling dating from the 17th century and some likely replaced in the 20th century.