Description

BADLEY STOWMARKET ROAD
TM 05 NE

1/8 The Dower House (formerly
listed as Doveshill
Farmhouse)
9.12.55
II

Former farmhouse. Late-mediaeval core with complex C16 and C17 alterations.
Mainly of 2 storeys, the cross-wing also with attics. Timber-framed and
plastered. Plaintiled roofs with axial and external end chimneys of red
brick. C19 small-pane casements at 1st storey, C20 casements at ground
storey. The wing has small-pane C19 sashes. Two C20 boarded entrance doors,
both with open gabled plaintiled porches on wooden posts. In the centre of
the house is a formerly-open hall of C15, or possibly late C14. 3 mutilated
trusses, one with a cambered tie-beam. A post is trenched for a passing-
brace, probably indicating reuse from a C13/C14 building. Tension-braced
studwork, each stud having prominent assembly marks. A hall window, blocked
but complete, has square mullions. Complete coupled-rafter roofs, heavily
smoke-blackened. The house was extended to left in C16, with widely-spaced
studwork with long convex-arched windbraces. A parlour wing was added to
right c.1600, with plain framing and good wind-braced side-purlin roof; it was
extended rearwards in early C19. A further rear wing was added to the service
end in C17. A date of 1604 is associated with the house; this may relate to
the parlour wing extension.

Listing NGR: TM0781056101

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26524713

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)