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SS 62 NW
11/192

SWIMBRIDGE
CHITTLEHAMPTON
The Knights Cottage, Stowford Grange and Stowford House

(formerly listed as Stowford House, EAST STOWFORD)

GV
II
House. Some C17 fabric extended and entirely remodelled in C19. Roughly coursed stone rubble. Slate roof with plain moulded bargeboards at left gable end. Stone stack at hipped end to right. Stone stack to front between two left-hand gables. Complex plan.

The C17 fabric is contained in the south-facing range which now forms a wing to the rear right side of the added and C19 Gothick front range with a contemporary additional short wing to rear left side. Two storeys. Four window range. Two gables flanking larger central gable. Fenestration in Gothick style with surrounds in stone to ground floor, timber to upper storey, all with segmental pointed arches to the lights. Single two-light window each side of canted bay window two storeys in height with hipped slate roof and windows of three-lights with single sidelights on each floor. Ground floor has two-light window to left of the canted bay and gabled porch to right with four-centred arched doorway and three-light windows to each side. Additional bay forming gable end of rear wing to right has three-light casements on each floor in same style. Canted bay window to left gable end. A single four-light ovolo mullion timber window survives to the rear range. Bell and bellcote at eaves level to right.

Interior: the central room in the C17 rear wing contains central beam and bressumers, ovolo-moulded with run-out stops, with similarly moulded and stopped joists. The roof structure of the rear wing has been raised and replaced except for a single probably C17 truss over the lower front end.

Listing NGR: SS6330926648

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26401477

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)