THE DOWER HOUSE

THE DOWER HOUSE, WINCHESTER ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1178891
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: THE DOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE DOWER HOUSE, WINCHESTER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1178891
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: THE DOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE DOWER HOUSE, WINCHESTER ROAD

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, WINCHESTER ROAD

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: East Hampshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Chawton
National Park:: SOUTH DOWNS
National Grid Reference:: SU 70941 37758

Details

SU 73 NW CHAWTON WINCHESTER ROAD 2/6 The Dower House

GV II

House. C18, early C19, and c1900. Rendered walls, half-timbered jettied 1st floor on side brackets. Steep tile roof, gable tile-hung with scalloped bands. Building of several phases; a small C18 L-shaped house, with a larger block (at right-angles to the roadway) of the early C19, with extensions and alterations in the Art and Craft manner. South front: formerly symmetrical, of 2 storeys, 3 windows, but the west side has been given a jettied gable. 2 early C19 upper sashes, the other windows being mullioned and transomed casements (including a rectangular bay below the jetty). Tuscan open porch of stone, 2 columns and simplified mouldings, with a reeded doorframe, enclosing a fanlight and 6-panelled door. The west elevation (to the street) shows the oldest part, with painted brickwork, casements. The south side has a gable and 2 sashes. There are substantial extensions, filling in the earlier L- shape, with tile-hung gables, painted brick walls, and casements, and traditional doors.

Listing NGR: SU7094437762

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Legacy System number:: 142300
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.