The Dower House

The Dower House is a house dating from the late 17th century, with an addition made in 1706, along with other 18th-century alterations and modifications from 1969. It is constructed of coursed squared ironstone, featuring a plain-tile roof on the older wing and a hipped slate roof on the 1706 range, with brick end and lateral stacks. Originally designed in an L-plan, it has since been modified to a T-plan. The house has two storeys and an attic, with the 1706 range comprising two storeys and a six-window facade facing High Street.

The original section may have a blocked central door with a stone lintel, and it includes old two-light leaded windows on both the ground and first floors, which have moulded stone sills and stone lintels. The building features a rendered plinth, hollow-chamfered and moulded stone eaves, three gabled dormer windows, quoins, and a stone-coped gable with kneelers on the right side. The three-bay wing from 1706 has blocked windows on the ground floor with moulded stone sills and ornamental carved stone lintels. There is an 18-pane sash window on the left side of the first floor, a 12-pane sash window on the right, and a blank central window on the first floor with a datestone inscribed W/IM/1706. The ground and first floor windows on the right are narrower. The building also has a wave-moulded plinth, two one-light cellar windows with stone lintels, raised quoins, a sill band, and moulded wood eaves.

Access to the rear is through a 20th-century two-storey porch. The garden door to the 1706 wing is part-glazed, featuring an ornamental fanlight and stone lintel. Inside, the house has ogee stop-chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. The dog-leg staircase has twisted balusters. The large rooms on the ground and first floors of the 1706 wing are adorned with fielded panelling, bolection-moulded doorcases, and early 19th-century white marble chimneypieces. The first-floor chimneypiece has a later 19th-century grate with fine tiles. There is a fitted cupboard to the left of the ground floor chimneypiece, featuring fluted pilasters, a round-arched head, and shaped shelves, with a similar fitted cupboard on the first-floor landing. Additionally, there is a stone fireplace with a Tudor-arched head and spandrels inscribed with IT on the left and TN on the right, possibly re-used from The Grange in Daventry.