What is a Dower House?
Tim Gowen
>
> Could someone explain to me just _WHAT_IS_ a Dower House?
I've got a feeling it's a house in which a Dowager resides. A Dowager
is someone who takes a title from a relative who is dead. In Jane Eyre
there's the Dowager Lady Ingram, who's the wife of the deceased Lord
Ingram... I think.
Tim
Dave Robinson
I vaguely remember seeing a 'For Sale - Dower House' sign just off the
M32 on the way out of Bristol two years ago (about the time of Mark's
demise). The building was a large-ish house up on a hillside.
....... but this was well after Cameron Fraser had done a bunk and Guy
had moved in, so it can't be the same one.... anyway Bristol is miles
away from Ambridge....
Are there any more Dower House's around the country?
Which one is the basis for the Pemberton residence?
Dave R.
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Glynis Baguley
Dave Robinson <rob...@admiral.co.uk> wrote:
>Could someone explain to me just _WHAT_IS_ a Dower House?
>
I think it's the aristocratic equivalent of a granny flat. Widowed
mother lives in deceased husband's ancestral home with son and
heir. When son and heir gets married, mother moves out into the dower
house.
That's if I'm right in thinking it's related to `dowager', but I
haven't checked.
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Myfanwy Ford
rob...@admiral.co.uk says...
>
>Could someone explain to me just _WHAT_IS_ a Dower House?
>
Dower Houses were built for the lady of the estate (or whatever) to
move into when her husband died and her son inherited. Son and wife
(if there was one) took over the main residence and dowager lady of
the manor moved into the Dower House. The original granny flat!
Myfanwy Ford
Robin E J Stevens
> A Dower House is where the widow lives once her husband has died and her
> son (or the next heir) has inherited the property.
So the name is going to be very appropriate. The widow (Caroline) will live
there but the heir (Simon) will own the property!
Robin
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Gordon Woods
R A Burroughs <R.A.Bu...@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>No idea what the Pemberton des res is based on. And of course, this leads
>to the question "Where was the original residence?" (And who lived there?)
Well, THE BOOK mentions lots of largish houses in Ambridge that are now
forgotten:
Manor Court was the home of Ralph Bellamy's father, Admiral Bellamy, and
then Carol and John Tregorran lived and worked there.
The Manor House (which is presumably the house the Dower House is related
to) was the 16th Century Lawson-Hope ancestral home. Last known
occupant: Jack Wooley bought it off Carol Tregorran when she married
John.
Also:
Ambridge Hall was built by the Lawson-Hopes in the 1860s for the village
doctor. It was given its name by Laura Archer (Phil's aunt), and is now
the home of the Snells.
Grey Gables is apparently late Victorian mock-gothic. No-one notable
seems to have lived there.
(Non-book owners who have only begun listening recently may not know that
the Lawson-Hope estate was sold in 1955 to George Fairbrother (whose
daughter Grace was Phil Archer's first wife, murdered by ITV), who then
sold it on in 1959 to Charles Grenville. A large part was then sold
(1964) to Ralph Bellamy, the remainder going to Jack Woolley. The Bellamy
Estate was divided three ways in 1975: 1,500 acres became Home Farm
(Brian Aldridge), 1,000 became the Blossom Hill Estate (Owned by Mr Barnet
- who he?) and the remaining 1,000 acres, including the Dower House were
finally sold by his widow, Lilian (niece of Phil Archer) to Cameron Fraser
in 1990.)
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In article <317E215B...@uea.ac.uk>, Tim Gowen writes:
> Dave Robinson wrote:
> >
> > Could someone explain to me just _WHAT_IS_ a Dower House?
>
> is someone who takes a title from a relative who is dead. In Jane Eyre
> there's the Dowager Lady Ingram, who's the wife of the deceased Lord
> Ingram... I think.
My next door neighbour is a Dowager Lady. The 'Dowager' title is to
distinguish the widow of the former title holder from the wife of the
current title holder.
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Alexis Haines
>
>Dave Robinson wrote:
>>
>> Could someone explain to me just _WHAT_IS_ a Dower House?
>
>I've got a feeling it's a house in which a Dowager resides. A Dowager
>is someone who takes a title from a relative who is dead. In Jane Eyre
>there's the Dowager Lady Ingram, who's the wife of the deceased Lord
>Ingram... I think.
>
dower - widow's share of her husband's estate.
dower house small house near a larger one forming part of a dower.
Which leads to the next question what larger house is the Dower House
near?
Alexis
R A Burroughs
: Could someone explain to me just _WHAT_IS_ a Dower House?
: Are there any more Dower House's around the country?
: Which one is the basis for the Pemberton residence?
A Dower House is where the widow lives once her husband has died and her
son (or the next heir) has inherited the property. There are a good few
around. The one in Bawtry, where I live, has been turned into an Indian
restaurant.
No idea what the Pemberton des res is based on. And of course, this leads
to the question "Where was the original residence?" (And who lived there?)
Rosie B
Timothy Lee
Pargetter Res? Ambridge Hall?
: Rosie B
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Richard Herring
Dave Robinson (rob...@admiral.co.uk) wrote:
: Could someone explain to me just _WHAT_IS_ a Dower House?
It's an aristocratic granny-flat.
Once upon a time, when the landed gentry all lived in country houses,
matters progressed in a more orderly fashion than they do today.
The Duke and Duchess of Blank inhabited the Stately Home and begat
various offspring. In the fullness of time the Duke would shuffle
off this m.c. leaving a widow (the husband always died first in those
far-off days.) Simultaneously his eldest son would inherit the title,
the son's wife would become the new Duchess and they and their family
would of course take up residence in the big house. This poses two
problems: (a) there are now two duchesses, (b) they can't live in
the same house. The solution: (a) rename the old biddy as the
Dowager Duchess, (b) pack her off to live in the Dower House, which
would be tucked away handily in one corner of the park, for easy
access to the grandchildren but at sufficient distance to keep
mother- and daughter-in-law safely apart.
And the same applies, mutatis mutandis, all the way down the social scale.
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In article <4lmb4g$r...@news.ox.ac.uk>, Gordon Woods
<sjoh...@sable.ox.ac.uk> writes
[]
>The Manor House (which is presumably the house the Dower House is related
>to) was the 16th Century Lawson-Hope ancestral home. Last known
>occupant: Jack Wooley bought it off Carol Tregorran when she married
>John.
(Thanks to those who've explained a dower house, BTW.) When did Jack
sell it again then, and to whom, assuming he did?
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