The Dower House
THE DOWER HOUSE, STOWMARKET ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231088
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Dower House
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOWER HOUSE, STOWMARKET ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231088
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Dower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DOWER HOUSE, STOWMARKET 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, STOWMARKET ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Badley
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 07810 56101
Details
BADLEY STOWMARKET ROAD TM 05 NE
1/8 The Dower House (formerly listed as Doveshill Farmhouse) 9.12.55 II
Former farmhouse. Late-mediaeval core with complex C16 and C17 alterations. Mainly of 2 storeys, the cross-wing also with attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roofs with axial and external end chimneys of red brick. C19 small-pane casements at 1st storey, C20 casements at ground storey. The wing has small-pane C19 sashes. Two C20 boarded entrance doors, both with open gabled plaintiled porches on wooden posts. In the centre of the house is a formerly-open hall of C15, or possibly late C14. 3 mutilated trusses, one with a cambered tie-beam. A post is trenched for a passing- brace, probably indicating reuse from a C13/C14 building. Tension-braced studwork, each stud having prominent assembly marks. A hall window, blocked but complete, has square mullions. Complete coupled-rafter roofs, heavily smoke-blackened. The house was extended to left in C16, with widely-spaced studwork with long convex-arched windbraces. A parlour wing was added to right c.1600, with plain framing and good wind-braced side-purlin roof; it was extended rearwards in early C19. A further rear wing was added to the service end in C17. A date of 1604 is associated with the house; this may relate to the parlour wing extension.
Listing NGR: TM0781056101
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 406124
- 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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