Dower
OLD DOWER HOUSE
(formally Seymour House)
MAIDEN BRADLEY CHURCH STREET ST 83 NW (west side). The Old Dower House (formerly listed as 6.1.66 Seymour House) GV II Detached house. Early C19. Stucco, hipped Welsh slate roof with brick stacks. Two-storey, 3-window front. Central door with 4 round-arched panels, semi-circular fanlight in panelled reveals, flanked by Ionic pilasters from removed portico, centre bay projects slightly, flanking 12-pane sashes with margin-panes. First floor has three 12-pane margin-pane sashes. Left return has bay with French windows, C19 conservatory to left, 12-pane sashes to first floor. Right return has 3-light leaded casement, 30-pane sash and planked door, to services. Rear wing on south side is original; 20-pane and 16-pane sashes, wing to north is later C19 addition with 12-pane sashes. Interior has original features; open stair hall with stick balusters and continuous wreathed handrail. Various doors; 8- panelled ground floor doors probably brought here from Bradley House. Drawing room with grey marble fireplace, late C19 Elizabethan-style fireplace and plaster frieze in dining room.
also see: Dower Dower House
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