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The Dower House

A Grade II Listed Building in Badley, Suffolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.164 / 52°9'50"N

Longitude: 1.037 / 1°2'13"E

OS Eastings: 607810

OS Northings: 256101

OS Grid: TM078561

Mapcode National: GBR TLC.C0L

Mapcode Global: VHKDP.XVLX

Plus Code: 9F43527P+JR

Entry Name: The Dower House

Listing Date: 9 December 1955

Last Amended: 19 May 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1231088

English Heritage Legacy ID: 406124

ID on this website: 101231088

Location: Mid Suffolk, IP6

County: Suffolk

District: Mid Suffolk

Civil Parish: Badley

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

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Description


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

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