Dove House

Dove House is a house built between 1766 and 1777, featuring a front and sides made of Flemish bond brick with stucco quoins. The rear outshot has walls made of copper slag blocks, and there is a 1980s extension at the back constructed from lias and Coleford brick. The roof is hipped and covered with Welsh slate, complete with end stacks. The house has a double-depth plan, including the rear outshot, and has additional extensions on the rear and left side from 1981 and 1989.

The building is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window facade, bracketed eaves, and a pedimented center that features a shell with a hawk in the tympanum. The late 19th-century half-glazed door is set beneath a bracketed segment pediment and was restored in the 1980s. The windows have flat arches with voussoirs and keystones, featuring late 19th-century 2/2-pane sashes in deepened openings flanking the door, as well as 18th-century Gothic-style 2-light casements on the first floor with switch tracery and iron opening lights. Above the door is a semi-circular-arched 2-light casement with leaded panes above the transom.

Inside, the house showcases 18th-century joinery details, including panelled doors and cupboards with moulded architraves, late 19th-century panelled shutters on the ground floor, and a late 19th-century fireplace on the left side of the ground floor. The mid-18th-century staircase features turned balusters, possibly reset from its original position, with a ramped handrail and a carved monkey's head. The mid-18th-century collar truss roof has through purlins scarfed at the principal rafters. The first-floor windows contain reset 15th-century glass, likely from Arlingham Church, which includes images of a King's head, a Jack-in-the-Green mask, and a Crucifixion with the Instruments of the Passion.

According to deeds held by the owner, the house was referred to as the "new house" by 1777. Despite the tympanum featuring a hawk, the house has been known as Dove House since at least the 1876 Morris's Directory. It is an interesting example of a provincial craftsman's interpretation of classical styles, with notable features such as the device, original casements, and reset medieval glass.