Bowes Hall

Bowes Hall is a large house dating from the early and later 17th century, with significant alterations and a refronting in the early to mid-18th century. It is constructed of squared rubble with ashlar dressings, has a graduated green slate roof, and stone chimney stacks. The building follows a double-depth plan with a short two-storey wing at the rear of the right return.

The main front is three storeys and six bays, though the two right-hand bays and the top storey are likely additions from the 18th century. It has a low plinth and raised-and-chamfered quoins. The central bay features a replaced six-panel door set within a pedimented, bolection-moulded doorcase. Windows are fitted with moulded surrounds; twelve-pane sashes are on the ground and first floors, and smaller nine-pane sashes above. A stone eaves cornice runs along the top. The roof has coped gables and shaped kneelers. Corniced end stacks and two ridge stacks are present. The right return has a central Dutch door within a plain surround, alongside scattered, mainly 19th-century sashes. The front half of the left return projects beyond the rear half. A mid-wall Venetian stair window, with thick glazing bars, is located at the rear.

Inside, the stone-flagged entrance hall features a Roman Doric screen. The drawing room and the first-floor front bedroom have large, bolection-moulded stone chimney pieces. A kitchen has a wide segmental fireplace arch. A panelled sitting room includes a dado rail and cornice. There are several six-panel doors throughout. The main staircase is a spacious two-flight stone design, with a narrow open well and replaced balusters. A mutilated, moulded ceiling is found in the staircase hall, and a two-flight fragment of attic staircase retains a closed-string, barley-sugar balusters and a moulded handrail.

A late 20th-century garage to the rear of the right return is not considered to be of architectural or historic interest.