The Dower House
THE DOWER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036345
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Dower House
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOWER HOUSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00927/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036345
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Dower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DOWER HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOWER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Boyton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 95078 39721
Details
BOYTON BOYTON VILLAGE ST 93 NE (south side) 8/22 The Dower House 11.9.68
GV II
Wrongly shown on OS map as Boyton Cottage. Detached house. C18, altered early C19. Dressed limestone, hipped tiled roof, brick stacks with decorated pots. Two-storey, 3-windowed south front; sashes. Early C19 half-glazed door with panelled reveals and moulded architrave with dentilled porch on wooden Tuscan columns, either side are paired 12-pane flush sashes. First floor has sash over door and pair of sashes either side; the left hand pairs on both floors are at lower level than right hand pairs. Dentilled brick cornice to roof with two hipped dormers; 2-light casements. Right return has pair of flush sashes to ground floor and one sash and a pair to first floor, one hipped dormer to roof. Left return has attached single-storey extension with steel casements and hipped roof, blocked openings to main range. Rear has pair of 2- storey wings flanking narrow former courtyard, filled by C19 single-storey bay with 24-pane sash, first floor of main range has 12-pane sash. Interior has early C19 fittings; open well stairs with two stick balusters per tread, ramped handrail, wreathed at bottom, beaded door architraves, 4-panelled doors, internal window shutters. Formerly Dower House of Fane family to Boyton Manor (q.v.). Undergoing renovation at time of survey (April 1985). Probably originally L-plan with subsequent additions and remodelling in late C18 and early C19.
Listing NGR: ST9507839721
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313239
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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