Description

TR 03 NE
MERSHAM BOWER ROAD
(north side)

7/91
Bower Farmhouse
27.11.57
II*

House. Circa 1500, altered C16-C18. Timber framed and clad with red
and blue brick, and rendered with tile hanging on 1st floor to front
elevation. Extended with red and blue brick (in part English bond)
with tile hung outshots. Plain tiled roof. Hall house with cross wing
passage in origin. Two storeys on ragstone plinth with hipped roof
and gablets. Stack to rear centre, with 4 truncated octagonal shafts
(original 6 tall ornamented chimney shafts, removed mid C20). Two
tripartite sash with central sash with vertical glazing bars on 1st
floor, and sash and 2 metal casements on ground floor with hipped
porch to centre right, with glazed outer door and half-glazed inner
door. Left return English bond brick with truncated external stack.
Hipped rear wing with catslide outshots. Interior: evidence of close-
studded exterior walls survives. End right bay rebuilt C18 with much
re-used timber. Brattished and coved dais beam with very low and wide
four centred arched door with hollow chamfered jambs. (Moulded
bargeboard preserved inside end room). Rear rooms (C17 extension) with
chamfered beams, wave moulded ship-lap doors, and kitchen inglenook
with round bread oven projecting into room. Main chamber/hall with
ovolo moulded cross-beamed ceiling with tongue stops with 9 panelled
studded doors in stop-chamfered and moulded doorways (all C16/C17
work). Open well stair with moulded rails and poppy-head finials to
newels (plaster panel baluster). Upper rooms with fine multi-panelled
doors in moulded surrounds, coved chimney overmantel. Close-studded
rear walls with mid-rail lean-to and clasped purlin roofs to rear
range. Main range with crown-post roof, the hall with half octagonal
end posts, and full central post about 5 feet high, smoke-blackened,
on massive hollow chamfered knee-braced tie beams.

Listing NGR: TR0565439388

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556823

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)