Daw Street Farmhouse (EHER 29258)

16th and 17th century timber framed house, extended in the 19th century and comprising two storeys with attics. The exterior is plastered and partly of painted brick, and the main range faces east. A single-storey (with attics) 19th century lean-to extension runs along the full length of the rear.

December 1967. Grade II listed. 16th and 17th century timber framed house, extended in the 19th century and comprising two storeys with attics. The exterior is plastered and partly of painted brick, and the main range faces East. It is roofed with handmade red clay tiles ad has an axial stack chimney, of which the right part is 17th century, the left part a 19th century extension. A single-storey (with attics) 19th century lean-to extension runs along the full length of the rear. Wing extending forward at right end, of painted brick, with an external stack in the angle. It has a three window range of 20th century casements, and a six-panel door with top panels glazed, in a 19th century gabled porch. The interior has jowled posts, chamfered axial and transverse beams (some boxed in), some exposed joists of horizontal section, clasped purlin roofs. The earliest features are in the rear end of the north wing. <1> NRHE data transfer: Dow Street [NAT]. <2> Dow Street Farmhouse (formerly listed under Outlying Items). House. 16th and 17th century, extended in the 19th century. RCHM 51. Grade II. <3> Dow Street, house, 1 mile SSE of the church, was built late in the 16th or early in the 17th century on an L-shaped plan, with the wings extending towards the south and east. There are modern additions on the east and west. The east front has two gables, one with original carved barge-boards. Above the doorway of the porch is a strip of original plaster-work. The two original chimney-stacks both have diagonal pilasters. <4> See also: <5>