Building record 799/3/1 - Dower House Farmhouse

Farmhouse. C17. Coursed limestone rubble with ironstone dressings, tile roof, brick end and ridge stacks.

{1} Farmhouse. C17. Coursed limestone rubble with ironstone dressings, tile roof, brick end and ridge stacks. 4-unit through-passage plan; 2 storeys and attic; 4-window range. Central doorway with 4-centred head and C19 part-glazed door, flanked by 2-storey canted bays with 2-light stone mullion windows with leaded lights to front and stone coped gables. Ground floor windows at either end have stone mullion, 3 leaded lights and hood-moulds. Stone coped gables with kneelers. Single-storey additions to left and right. Interior: some ogee stop-chamfered spine beams, an open fireplace and a 4-centred arched stone fireplace to first floor.

{3} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 6/120 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F05 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Stowe Nine Churches (Photographs). SNN113402.

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May 11 2022 12:36PM