THE DOWER HOUSE

THE DOWER HOUSE, GREEN LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218538
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: THE DOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE DOWER HOUSE, GREEN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218538
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Aug-1995
List Entry Name:: THE DOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE DOWER HOUSE, GREEN LANE

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, GREEN LANE

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: North East Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Brampton
National Grid Reference:: SK3449773003

Details

SK37SW 1264-0/2/105 31/01/67

BRAMPTON GREEN LANE (South side) The Dower House (Formerly Listed as: CUTTHORPE The Dower House, Cutthorpe Hall)

GV II

House. Mid C17, with mid C19 alterations, and some C20 remodelling. Coursed rubble Coal Measures Sandstone with quoins, a chamfered low plinth in part, ashlar dressings, coped gables with moulded kneelers, gable and ridge brick stacks, and a stone slated roof. Lobby-entrance plan. South-east elevation of 2 storeys and attics, 5 bays, the 3 bays to the south-west end less altered than the remaining 2 bays. The doorway, set against the ridge stack to the central bay, is quoined, the surround having a complex double roll moulding. There is a massive lintel, above which is a hood mould with label stops. To the south-west are stacked, but slightly staggered, 3-light chamfered mullioned windows with drip moulds. Farther to the south-west are 2 enlarged ground-floor chamfered mullioned windows, both of which show evidence of C19 renewal, above which are two C19 glazing bar sashes, 4 x 4 panes, within flush stone surrounds. There are 2 gabled dormers to the attic level, each with a 2-light chamfered mullioned window beneath a drip mould. Between the 2 gables is a shallow parapet, with a stone spout emerging from it. The 2 bays to the north-east end have plain single-light openings except for a single wide 4-paned window. The rear elevation has 2 gabled ranges extending north-westwards, the shallower of which has a late C17 2-light mullioned window at first floor level, and a C17 single-light window at ground-floor level.

Listing NGR: SK3449773003

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Legacy System number:: 393516
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.