The Dower House
THE DOWER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177399
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Dower House
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOWER HOUSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177399
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Nov-1987
- 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:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dowlish Wake
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 37612 12760
Details
DOWLISH WAKE CP ST31SE DOWLISH WAKE VILLAGE
2/33 The Dower House (formerly listed is Lower Farm House and range of Barns at Lower Farm) 4.2.58
GV II
Detached house. Dated 1664. Ham stone cut and squared in diminishing depth of courses, ashlar tressings; thatched roof with stepped coped west gable and hipped on east return; brick chimney stacks. 'L'-plan; 2 storey, 4 Hollow-chamfrer mullioned windows in wave-mould recesses, the lower windows with labels, first floor windows of 4, 4, 4 and 3 lights, those to bays 3 and 4 being restorations; to ground floor a 5-light spanning bays 1/2, then a 4- and a 3 light: to lower bay 2 a C20 boarded door in plain opening; between the windows to upper bays l/2 a datestone with billet-mould frame inscribed 'M/WC/1664'. West gable has a 3-light mullioned window with label to first floor, with a small extension to the north-west corner. A longer extension from the north-east corner has one 2-light window without label, and then joins onto two farm buildings. Inside, the roof frame has closed collar trusses with wattle and daub infill: two cambered fireplaces, the ground floor example mutilated, otherwise the interior considerably modified. The house was leased to female members of the Speke family during the later C18, hence +he name. (VCH Somerset, Vol IV, l978, pl52; VAG Report, unpublished SRO, l975).
Listing NGR: ST3761212760
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262165
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978), 152
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1975)
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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