TR 05 SW MOLASH SHOTTENDEN ROAD (east side) 3/39 Great Bower Farmhouse (formerly listed as 27.11.57 Bower Farmhouse) II* Hall house. C15 and C16 and C19 wing. Timber framed on flint plinth, exposed to rear, entrance front clad in red brick and tile hung with plain tile roof. Two storeys and attic with skylight, hip and gablets and stacks to rear right and centre left. Four C19 sash windows on first floor, 3 on ground floor, and 4 panelled door in sloping porch to right. C19 red brick wing to right. Rear elevation: 2 projecting close-studded timber framed wings, central panel-framed hall, all exposed with plaster infill. Interior: wooden newel staircase with wall paintings of flowers and costumed figures dated c. 1560, fragments of painting elsewhere on beams and panelling. Fire- place of c 1500 with roll moulded jambs and shield and heart- leaved tongues in spandrels. Partially exposed carved satyr- like figure on otherwise bricked-over mantle in Hall. Crown post roof with tall (3 foot) octagonal moulded posts. Listing NGR: TR0340852939