Bowles Farmhouse

Bowles Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The main hall range runs approximately northeast to southwest and features a two-bay northeast crosswing that has a chimney stack in its northeast wall, as well as a three-bay southwest crosswing with a chimney stack at the junction with the hall range.

There is a northwest extension from the northwest crosswing that has a gambrel roof, dating from the 17th century, along with a single-storey lean-to extension beyond it, which is roofed with red clay corrugated tiles. Additionally, there is a single-storey extension to the northeast of the northeast crosswing, also roofed with red clay corrugated tiles, and a flat-roofed single-storey extension to the southwest of the southwest crosswing, which is a 20th-century addition.

The building is two storeys high. The southeast elevation, which faces the garden, features a two-storey splayed bay with 20th-century casement windows on the southwest crosswing, along with two other 20th-century casement windows on each floor. The interior has been significantly altered, but the southwest crosswing contains a plain-chamfered beam with lamb's tongue plus bar stops, and the northwest extension has a beam with lamb's tongue stops. The roofs feature clasped purlins, and the roof of the hall range was raised by approximately one metre in the 18th century, with earlier weathering still visible on the chimney stack. Some smoke-blackened medieval rafters have been reused in this roof.