The Tithe Barn

SP 01 NW DOWDESWELL LOWER DOWDESWELL

5/39 The Tithe Barn (formerly listed with Home Farm 23.1.52 House with dovecot and farm buildings) GV II

Former cowhouse, now house and two barns (one now converted for use as meeting hall). Mid-late C16. House; coursed squared and dressed limestone, stone slate roof, artificial stone stack. Barns; coursed squared and dressed limestone, west end of principal barn rebuilt in ashlar. House and barn complex forms an 'L'-shaped plan, tithe barn with projecting porch and buttressed west end down slope from house. House; 2 storeys and attic lit by C20 skylights. One original 2-light hollow-chamfered stone- mullioned casement to first floor. Front wall substantially rebuilt when house converted C20. Single light with stilted-headed surround towards apex of right-hand gable end. All other windows 1, 2 and 4-light C20 stone-mullioned casements without glazing bars. Pair of C20 plank doors with fillets within 4-centred arched doorways with imposts at centre of facade, C20 glazed door within similar surround. Similar doorway far left. Continuous dripmould between ground and first floor. Tithe barn; double doors to projecting porch. Clamp buttresses with double offsets and double doors (opposite porch) to north wall. Diagonal buttresses with double offsets and blocked pigeon holes in rebuilt gable end. Blocked pigeon holes in gable end. Converted barn up slope from the latter lit by 2-light hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned window. C20 doorway with wooden lintel left. Two plate glass patio doors in north wall. Saddleback gable-end coping at right gable-end of house, formerly with finial, roof of house hipped at junction with converted barn. Flat gable-end coping with roll-cross saddles to tithe barn. Interior of house not inspected. Tithe barn: 5-bays, roof trusses with curved principals, double, trenched purlins, two collar beams and yolk at ridge. Converted barn; 4-bays, roof trusses with collar and tie beams, some through others trenched.

Listing NGR: SP0007919960