The Dower House
THE DOWER HOUSE, COMMON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198778
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Dower House
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOWER HOUSE, COMMON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198778
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Dower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DOWER HOUSE, COMMON ROAD
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, COMMON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hopton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 99642 79623
Details
TL 9879-9979 HOPTON COMMON ROAD
3/37 The Dower House 14.7.55 GV II
House. C17 and early C18. One-and-a-half storeys: 3-cell lobby-entrance plan. Timber-framed; plastered in panels of simple comb-pargetting; thatched roof. An internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft, and an end stack on the south. 3 3-light early C18 mullion-and-transome windows with square-leaded panes, and 4 gabled dormers with square leaded panes to 2-light casement windows. 6-panelled door: raised fielded panels; eared architrave, bolection-moulded frieze, triangular pediment. Little original framing visible. Early C18 additions include the long single-storey lean-to on the rear wall, which has reused C17 casement windows with wrought-iron frames and diamond-leaded panes; the stair beside the chimney-stack, with turned balusters and plain handrails, and the corner fireplace in the small south room, with eared architrave and bolection-moulded frieze similar to the outer doorcase. The roof, which has clasped purlins, no principal rafters and a ridge-piece, also appears to be an C18 replacement.
Listing NGR: TL9964279623
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284390
- 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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