Description

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TQ 44 SE HEVER HEVER ROAD

55/2006 The Bower

GV II

House formerly a farmhouse. Circa early C18 reputedly 1710, remodelled and
extended in circa late C19 or early C20. Brick built, in stretcher bond on
the right hand side the front and left hand side tile-hung on first floor and
weatherboarded on ground floor. The rear wing is of brick the left hand side
weatherboarded. Plain tile half-hipped roof, the rear wing is gable ended.
Projecting gable end stacks.

Plan and development: The main front range and possibly the rear right hand
outshut is the original circa early C18 house. It has a 2-room plan the rooms
of equal size, the left hand the parlour and the right hand the original
kitchen with a relatively wide entrance hall between containing a dog-leg
staircase. There is an unheated outshut behind the right hand room which
might be integral and part of the original plan or a later extension (stretcher
bond brick right hand side possibly to conceal joint in brickwork). Late in
the C19 or early in C20 the house was remodelled and extended by the addition
of a 2-storey kitchen wing, with its own unheated outshut, behind the left
hand room. The other alterations of this period include the front porch and
bay window to its left and possibly a complete refenestration, replacement of
much of the internal joinery including the staircase and possibly the addition
of the cloakroom behind in the space between the rear wing and outshut The
external weatherboarding, the tile-hanging and conservatory on the right hand
side might also be of this period.

Exterior: 2-storeys and attic. 3 window south west front symmetrical except
for the large ground floor bay window to the left. The bay window is of circa
late C19 or early C20 with mullion-transom casements and cornice but the other
3-light and central 1st floor 2-light casements were not examined and might be
earlier. Central doorway with late C19 or early C20 half glazed door and
porch with slender columns supporting a canopy - entablature. One central
hipped dormer with wrought-iron finial and casement.

The right hand side has a large external stack with tiled set-off enclosed at
the base within a large circa early C20 conservatory The left hand side also
has an external stack, the weatherboarding on the ground floor of the front
range continues to cover the whole of this side of the rear wing and its
outshut.

The roof,at the rear continues down at the left over the outshut above which
there are 2 hipped dormers and to the right the later wing projects and has a
projecting stack and a single storey lean-to outshut on its gable end.

Interior: The right hand ground floor has a cross beam with thin chamfers and
cyma stops and a large brick fireplace with a similar lintel. The first floor
rooms in the front range have chamfered cross-beams with run-out stops. The
doorways in the front range have original door frames but only those on the
first floor have their C18 2-panel doors, the ground floor rooms are late C19
or C20 replacements. The staircase is also late C19 or early C20 and has
turned newels and balusters. The rear right hand room in the outshut has
roughly chamfered beams. The roof over the front range was only partly seen
but appears to be the original early C18 common-rafter oak structure.

Listing NGR: TQ4709444880

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26562303

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide