Building record 5459/0/18 - The Dower House

House. Dated 1636, altered early C19 and C20. Coursed limestone rubble, thatch roof, brick ridge, end and lateral stacks. L plan, lobby-entry house. 2 storeys. Blocked door to right of centre with wood lintel, C20 porch in re-entrant angle with projecting wing to left. 24-pane sash window to left of blocked door, 2-light casement window to right, both with wood lintels. 3-light casement window to first floor in eyebrow dormer. Projecting wing has 3-light casement window to ground floor gable end . ment above and to ground floor right side, all with wood lintels. Small ironstone datestone in right gable inscribed: WAT/1636. Interior: stop-chamfered spine beams and some original stop-chamfered joists. Pair of open fireplaces, back-to-back with stop-chamfered bressumer. Collar truss roof.

{3} Undated photo, also photo dated 13.01.1994;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 13/184 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F10 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Stoke Bruerne (Photographs). SNN113273.

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Apr 27 2022 2:39PM