Building record 1292700000 - NORTH DEAN HOUSE & THE DOWER HOUSE

Grade II. Two houses, formerly house and service wing. Left range is possibly mid-late C18, altered mid C19; front range remodelled early C20 in mid C18 style; right end and service wing to rear added c.1920. Left side rendered and colourwashed, remainder brick; hipped old tile roofs, brick chimneys. 2 storeys and attic. Front is of narrow red and vitreous brick with moulded eaves. Quoins and pilaster strips flanking door have one course of projecting rounded brick in every 4. Cogged brick over central first floor window. 7 bays of boxed sashes with segmental heads; 3 hipped dormers with paired leaded casements; central 2-panel door with flat wooden hood on scroll brackets. 1920s extension in matching style to right has semi-circular projection with 3 bays of sash windows. Right side has 3-bay centre-piece with shaped parapet and cluster of 3 complex chimney shafts. Left side has first floor band course and 5 bays of 3-pane sashes. Centre bay has 2-storey gabled projecting porch with Tudor hoodmoulds over upper sash and glazed door. Interior has fake timber framing and fireplaces and staircase in Elizabethan style (B1).
North Dean House was the Home Guard 4th Battalion HQ on 4 Sept 1942 (B2).