Dowd's Farmhouse
DOWD'S FARMHOUSE, BOTLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360818
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jul-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Dowd's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DOWD'S FARMHOUSE, BOTLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360818
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jul-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Dowd's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWD'S FARMHOUSE, BOTLEY 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:
- DOWD'S FARMHOUSE, BOTLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Eastleigh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hedge End
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 48856 14664
Details
HEDGE END
1009/0/10021 BOTLEY ROAD
02-JUL-02 Dowd's Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Circa early C17; altered circa early C19; extended circa mid C19. Timber-frame walls faced or partly rebuilt in brick, painted at front; extended in red brick. Asbestos tile roof with half-hipped ends. Brick axial stack.
PLAN: 4-room plan front [S] range, left [W] room added later. Central hall with fireplace in axial stack on right and unheated service room to left [W]; another unheated room on right now served by fireplace built into back of hall stack. In about the mid C19 a large extension was built at the rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window south front; boarded up casement windows; doorway to right of centre with plank door and later gabled porch; roof of right bay is slightly lower. At rear [N] a tall 2-storey red brick extension with sash windows and French casement on ground floor.
INTERIOR: Hall has exposed wall-framing, is ceiled and has large fireplace with heavy timber bressumer, simple circa early C19 chimneypiece and blocked by old cupboards and C20 tiled chimneypiece. In framed partition on west side of hall two cranked-head doorways, one to service room with exposed closely-spaced unchamfered joists and exposed wall-framing and the other doorway to straight staircase. Hall chamber has exposed timber-framing, chamfered axial beam on carved wooden corbels and fireplace with cambered timber bressumer and Georgian cast-iron grate. Roof-space inaccessible. Old plank doors, one with cover-moulds. Rear extension has staircase with stick balusters and turned newels, panelled doors, window shutters and Victorian chimneypieces.
Dowd's Farmhouse is an interesting 3-room plan early C17 timber-framed house with a large mid C19 brick extension at the rear.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489579
- 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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