Bowfield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Cottage.
Bowfield Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-kitchen-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bowfield Cottage, Rutherford Lane, Bowes
- OS grid reference
- NZ 036 125
- Coordinates
- 54.50857, -1.9454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowfield Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located on Bowes Rutherford Lane. It is constructed from squared rubble with stone-flagged roofs and stone chimney stacks, showcasing a Tudor style.
The cottage has two storeys on the left side, which features a one-bay section, and a one-storey, two-bay section on the right. The right section includes replaced narrow double doors with a latticed overlight set in a hollow-chamfered surround, topped with a 4-centred head and a hoodmould. To the right of this, there is a two-light window. The left section boasts a canted stone bay window with a configuration of 1+2+1 lights and an embattled parapet. Above, there is a two-light window on the first floor beneath a small gable with an apex finial. All windows are mullioned, featuring double-chamfered surrounds, replaced latticed lights, and hoodmoulds. The roofs are steeply pitched with overhanging eaves and verges.
The cottage also has external chimneys on the returns, which have paired diagonal shafts. There are 20th-century rear additions that are not of special interest.
Local climate
Bowfield Cottage receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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