[2][3] The southwest end of the original wing is an interesting example of 16th-century work, and, inside the house, an early 17th-century overmantel is noteworthy.

The original central chimney-stack of the 16th-century wing has three octagonal shafts on a rectangular base with a moulded capping.

At the west end of the 17th-century wing is a contemporary chimney-stack with attached shafts, divided by sunk panels.

[4] Thomas Wright and W. Bartlett wrote in 1831 that: Dorewards  has  the  mansion  pleasantly situated  on  an  acclivity,  with  a  fine  open  prospect  southward: it  is  a  short  distance  eastward  from  the  church,  near  the  road  from  High  Garret  to  Braintree,  and  was new-built  by  Edward  Thorsby,  in  1579.

[5] Alwine Doreward was the father of Thomas and Roger, who lived in this parish in the time of Henry III (reigned 1216–1272); of these, the former was the father of Ralph, the purchaser of this estate; his two wives were named Cicely and Agnes: by the first of these he had William and Roger, of whom William was his successor; who, by his wife Joan, only daughter and heiress of John Olivers, of Stanway, had John Doreward; who had, by his wife Katharine, a son and successor of the same name, born in 1390; he had also Joan, married to Richard Waldegrave: Eleanor, wife of[5] Thomas Knyvett (d.1458)[6] of Stanway Essex,[7] Esq., the grandson of Sir John Knyvett,[6] and Elizabeth, married to Chamberlain.

John Doreward, the son, acquired celebrity in the legal profession; was speaker of the house of commons in 1414, and sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in 1425 and 1432.

of Woodrising, in Norfolk; the son resided at Spain's Hall, in Great Yeldham, where, having married Margery, daughter of John Nanton, Esq.

he died in 1495, leaving no issue; the three daughters of his sister Elizabeth being his co-heiresses: these were Margaret, wife of Nicholas Beaupre, of Norfolk; Ellen, of Henry Thorsby, Esq.

[5] Ankfrith, a Danish nobleman, and the ancestor of the Thorsby family, flourished about the year 1014, in the time of king Sweyn, and had vast possessions in the northern parts of the kingdom.

The eldest son, Christopher, succeeded his father, and married Audrey, daughter of Sir Nicholas Timperley, Esq.

Christopher Thorsby, the eldest son, had four wives, of whom the first was Jane, daughter of Thomas Smyth Neville, Esq.

[14] Henry Thursby and Helen Fotheringhay had: It is today a farmhouse divided into two homes, with farm buildings and 210 acres of farmland.