THE DOWER HOUSE

THE DOWER HOUSE, THE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1122278
Date first listed:: 16-May-1984
List Entry Name:: THE DOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE DOWER HOUSE, THE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1122278
Date first listed:: 16-May-1984
List Entry Name:: THE DOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE DOWER HOUSE, THE STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE DOWER HOUSE, THE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Sturmer
National Grid Reference:: TL 69990 43787

Details

TL 64 SE STURMER THE STREET 2/14 NORTH SIDE The Dower House, formerly The Rectory

GV II

House, late C16, extended in C18. Timber framed, plastered, and red brick, Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned approx. N-S with internal chimney stack in N bay, forming a lobby-entrance to W, now blocked. External chimney stack to E of S bay, now enclosed in C18 parallel range. Stair tower in NE angle. N extension to main range, late C18, with pyramidal roof. 2 storeys with attics. W elevation, ground floor, one double- hung sash window without glazing bars, one bay window with tiled, hipped roof, one splayed bay window with flat roof, one late C19/early C20 casement window. First floor, one double-hung sash window of 4 lights, 2 late C19/early C20 casement windows. In S elevation, 6-panel door in simple doorcase with shallow hood on brackets, late C18. In S ground floor room, axial beam plain-chamfered with step stops, joists plastered to soffits. Recessed semi-circular cupboard in E wall to N of stack, C18. In next room to N, axial beam plain-chamfered, exposed joists of horizontal section, contemporary wood-burning hearth reduced for coal fire. Clasped purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TL6999043787

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Legacy System number:: 114232
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.