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SILVERTON
SS 90 NE
4/215 Great Dorweeke Farmhouse
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- II
Farmhouse. C17 core largely rebuilt in C19. Roughcast cob with stone footings under
half-hipped thatched roof. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage plan with rear wing to
inner room; left-hand (lower end) end stack; axial stack at higher end of hall, both
with brick shafts. 2 storeys throughout.
Front: 5-window range; all upper windows of 2-lights with C19 casements, 4 panes
per light with margin panes; ground-floor with 3 identical windows to right of
doorway; with panelled reveals and pilasters and under a later-C20 pantiled porch;
window to the left of this converted into French window with glazing bars. Right-
hand end with one 3-light window to first floor with deeply chamfered mullions and
surround; C19 window below. Slated leanto to rear with a 6-light C19 casement
window; two 2-light C19 window above. The gable wall of a barn 7 metres east of,
and facing, the house contains a single-light medieval (probably C15) window, trefoil
headed under square hood mould, deeply chamfered with glazing groove.

Listing NGR: SS9536306843