Bowers is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1966. House.

Bowers

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 August 1966
Type
House
Address
Bowers, Saddleworth Road, Ripponden
OS grid reference
SE 067 206
Coordinates
53.68267, -1.89937
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bowers is a house dated 1614, with an additional parallel range added to the south in the mid-17th century and 19th-century alterations. It features large dressed stone and a stone slate roof, and is two storeys high. The south front has a plinth, a string course, and double chamfered mullioned windows with seven lights, along with a six-light window above on the first floor. There is a porch with a basket arched doorway that has carved shields set in the spandrels and a deeply moulded surround. Above this, the string course forms a triangular pediment with a coped gable and a lantern finial. The front also includes a three-light window with a four-light window above, and a sashed window with a three-light window above it.

On the left return wall, there is a coped gable with kneelers and an extruded stack. The first floor features a two-light window with a hoodmould and label stops. Set back from this is the remains of the earlier housebody, which has a two-light fire-window and a former 14-light mullioned and transomed window that has been altered to form three large lights, both of which have hoodmoulds with carved label stops. The service end has been rebuilt and includes a 19th-century cottage, all of which have sashed windows.

The right return wall has two gables, with a string course stepping over four sashed windows that possibly had 15-paned glazing originally. There is a single sash window in each gable, which is coped with kneelers and finials, one of which is inscribed with "HM". Set back is an earlier house featuring a Tudor arched doorway with a lintel carved with spandrels and the date "1614", along with a chamfered surround. Above this doorway is a small arched light with sunken spandrels. To the right, there is a three-light chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould, and a four-light double chamfered mullioned window on the first floor. The house has three stacks along the ridge.

Local climate

Bowers sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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