Bowbridge House

Bowbridge House is a house that dates from the early 18th century, with later additions from the mid-18th century and mid-19th century. It is constructed of red brick with sandstone dressings and features plain tile roofs that are hipped to the southeast. The house has five brick ridge and gable stacks and stands two storeys tall.

The east elevation consists of three plus one bays, with the three-bay mid-18th century section having a central bay that is advanced and pedimented. It has a moulded stone eaves cornice. The ground floor includes a recessed porch situated between broad mid-19th century bays, each featuring parapets and broad tripartite glazing bar sashes. Inside the porch is a Venetian doorway with a half-glazed door. The first floor has a central Venetian window adorned with alternately raised voussoirs around the arch, along with pieces of entablature over the side windows, which are also glazing bar sashes. These side windows are flanked by additional glazing bar sashes set under channelled stone lintels with raised keyblocks. To the right, there is a projecting 19th-century bay that has a tripartite glazing bar sash on the ground floor and a single glazing bar sash above, both under a stone lintel.

The south elevation features a two-storey canted bay with glazing bar sashes and a 19th-century conservatory or greenhouse. The west elevation is irregularly gabled and includes glazing bar sashes under stone lintels.

Inside, there is an open string staircase with carved tread ends and two turned balusters per tread, likely altered in the 19th century. The interior also contains two late 18th-century chimneypieces and raised and fielded panelled doors. In the back part of the house, which may date to the 17th century, there are moulded beams. Historically, the house served as the dower house to Markeaton Hall.