THE DOWER HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1155397
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: THE DOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE DOWER HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1155397
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: THE DOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE DOWER HOUSE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE DOWER HOUSE

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: Winchester (District Authority)
Parish:: Crawley
National Grid Reference:: SU 42451 34813

Details

SU 4234 CRAWLEY CRAWLEY (South Side)

11/13 The Dower House

GV II*

Mansion, once the rectory. C17, with a large mid C19 extension at the south side, and early C20 extensions on the north side. Brick walls, and tiled roof. The C17 core is a plain 2-storeyed block with a tile roof, upper walls of red brickwork in English bond above flint walls, casement windows within chamfered stone frames (single units and pairs with mullions). The southward extension is a double-pile taller unit of Victorian/Tudor style, having red brick walls in Flemish bond with stone dressings; verge to the raised gables, crenellated parapet with Gothic weathering band, hoodmoulds to mullioned windows, some finials. A 2-storeyed porch is placed to the right of centre, with a gable above a stone oriel above a Tudor archway: to its south side is a single- storeyed castellated unit and above it (in the main wall) a Gothic (staircase) window. The other elevations also have 2-storeyed projections, and have the same details. At right-angles to the main (north-south) axis, abutting the main street, is a service wing (mainly recast and extended in the early C20), of 2 storeys, with irregular fenestration, and 3 unequal gables above jeftied 1st floors, containing bricknogged timber-framing, the lower walls being of brickwork: beneath the middle gable is a stone-framed doorway. On either side a boundary wall of flint with brick dressings extends, at the west side pierced by a Tudor stone doorway, with a gabled roof above. Between the service wing and the original building is a red brick (castle-type) tower, of the early C20, with a parapet projected on stone brackets, narrow (slit) windows, and an octagonal staircase turret in the north-east corner. Inside the original part is a fine oak ceiling: the mid Cl9 part has a fine panelled room of C17 panels, with patterned ceiling and fireplace of the same style, elsewhere (staircase and entrance hall) there is 'Jacobean' detail. A remarkable assembly of parts, all of late Tudor and Jacobean style, but of different periods.

Listing NGR: SP5090632247

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 145569
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.