page_title: Dowsby Hall
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Dowsby Hall / Architecture / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: The west front of Dowsby Hall, a Grade II* listed early 17th-century Jacobean house situated in Dowsby, 6 miles (10&#160;km) to the to the north of Bourne in Lincolnshire, England.
context_page_description: Dowsby Hall is an early 17th-century house situated in Dowsby, Lincolnshire, England, and 6 miles to the north of Bourne. Originally a much grander house, attributed to the architect John Thorpe, it was converted to farm house in the late 18th century. It is listed Grade II*. From about 1920 to 1987, it was the home of Henry Burtt, who suggested the idea of the radio programme The Archers to the BBC producer Godfrey Baseley.
context_section_description: The front of the house is in limestoneashlar on the east facade and the rebuilt south face, while the north and west sides are in coursed Rubble masonry. The source of the limestone is likely to be from the Ancaster stone or Heydour quarries.  A three storey house double pile house, with ridge roofs with stone coped gables, crowned with small knopped obelisks.  Four chimney stacks in central valley between roofs, one with 3 tall angle shafts, the other 3 with tall paired angle shafts.
   Rainwater head  or Launder box dated 1630 drains the gulley between the parallel ridges on the north side. Four southern bays of the original seven  bay east front demolished in late18th century  leaving three northern bays.  Mullioned windows, some of which have recently been re-fenestrated, having been previously blocked with brick.  Projecting moulded cornice above corbelled out bay window at third floor level above the  canted or bay oriel windows of the first and second floors. A similar moulded cornice crowned with a  gablet with obelisks on apex and kneelers above the windows of the two other remaining bays. 
  Inside a billiards room  with 17th. century oak fielded panelling with chamfered beam and small panelled cupboard doors flanking fireplace. The original  hall has been split  with the insertion of an early 18th. century bolection moulded panelled dining room and a mid-18th. century marbled panelled drawing room.
caption: Dowsby Hall, West elevation
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