Description

SCALFORD WYCOMB
SK 7724 Stowleigh
24/394
4.9.79

II

House, formerly farmhouse. Built 1850, altered C2O.
Ironstone ashlar with limestone dressings, slate roof and brick end
stacks.
Double-depth plan.
2-storey, 3-window range.
Main front faces garden and has central 6-panel door with overlight, moulded
wood surround, limestone jamb stones and keyblocked stone lintel.
'French' windows to ground floor, 16-pane sash windows to 1st floor, all
with similar jambs and lintels. Limestone quoins and overhanging bracketed
wood eaves. Circular limestone plaque above door inscribed cath to left of
shield, stow to right and 1850 below. Coarser masonry to sides and rear.
Carved head, possibly medieval, incorporated in rear left angle at ground
level, and third quoin up is inscribed w h in medieval-style script.
Interior: Open-well stiarcase with stick balusters, ramped and wreathed
mahogany handrail, and carved tread ends. Shutters to all front windows.
Said to have been built as a dower house for Catherine Stow.

Listing NGR: SK7744924909

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26337657

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)