Stowey Cottages Stowey House

ST13NE NETHER STOWEY CP ST MARY'S STREET (South side

11/75 Stowey House and No 1 Stowey Cottages (formerly listed as Stowey Farm House [now divided into two dwellings]) 29.3.63

GV II

Farmhouse, now divided into 2 houses. C16, C17, some C19 and C20 alterations, particularly to the exterior. Roughcast, slate roofs, coped verges, brick stacks. Cross passage plan; later wing to each side of frontage which is at right-angles to St Mary's Street, E-shaped facade with a central porch and front facing gables. Two storeys and attics, very irregular fenestration, many window openings appear blocked, predominantly 3-light casements with glazing bars. Benched porch to left of 2 storeys, studded plank inner door with a later glazed panel. Further semi-circular head door opening to right wing, panelled and glazed door, fanlight with radiating glazing bars, gabled hood on brackets. Pent-roofed stair-turret to right return. Left return facing St Mary's Street of 2 bays, two, 3 and 5-light casements; door opening plank door, slated pentice on 2 slender wooden posts. Interior of Stowey House with 2 C17 ornamental plaster ceilings, thin ribs; one with curved patterns and bosses; the other with squares and diamonds; fireplace with a broad chamfered wooden bressumer; C17 staircase with turned balusters and moulded hand rail, the attic flight with splat balusters; two chamfered and stopped door frames to first floor. Wing to rear, known as No 2 Stowey Cottages, not of special interest.

Listing NGR: ST1933239631