Bowes and District Working Men's Club is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Club.
Bowes and District Working Men's Club
- WRENN ID
- knotted-forge-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Club
- Address
- Bowes and District Working Men's Club, the Street
- OS grid reference
- NY 995 135
- Coordinates
- 54.51686, -2.00862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowes and District Working Men's Club is a house that has been converted into a working men's club, dating from the early to mid-18th century. It is constructed from tooled ashlar sandstone and features a stone-flagged roof with stone chimney stacks. There is a left link extension made of rubble sandstone, also with a stone-flagged roof.
The building is two storeys high and has two bays, with a plinth, sill and lintel bands, and raised quoins. The windows are paired 12-pane sashes with flat-faced jambs and central mullions, and there are small lunette windows above them with semicircular bands and raised keystones. The ground-floor lunette windows have radial glazing bars, while the first-floor lunette windows are blocked. The roof is low-pitched with coped gables and shaped kneelers, and there are end stacks with top ledges and water tables.
A short first-floor link section connects the club to Nos. 1 and 2, The Street, over an alley to the left. This link is supported by transverse wood beams of heavy scantling and has a low-pitched roof. The entrance to the club is located at the rear of the left return.
Local climate
Bowes and District Working Men's Club sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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