Description

TR 05 SW MOLASH SHOTTENDEN ROAD
(east side)

3/39 Great Bower Farmhouse
(formerly listed as
27.11.57 Bower Farmhouse)

II*

Hall house. C15 and C16 and C19 wing. Timber framed on flint
plinth, exposed to rear, entrance front clad in red brick and
tile hung with plain tile roof. Two storeys and attic with
skylight, hip and gablets and stacks to rear right and centre
left. Four C19 sash windows on first floor, 3 on ground floor,
and 4 panelled door in sloping porch to right. C19 red brick
wing to right. Rear elevation: 2 projecting close-studded
timber framed wings, central panel-framed hall, all exposed with
plaster infill. Interior: wooden newel staircase with wall
paintings of flowers and costumed figures dated c. 1560,
fragments of painting elsewhere on beams and panelling. Fire-
place of c 1500 with roll moulded jambs and shield and heart-
leaved tongues in spandrels. Partially exposed carved satyr-
like figure on otherwise bricked-over mantle in Hall. Crown
post roof with tall (3 foot) octagonal moulded posts.

Listing NGR: TR0340852939

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556169

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)