Bowyer's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Bowyer's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- bitter-ashlar-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bowyer's Farmhouse, the Street, Swallowfield
- OS grid reference
- SU 724 647
- Coordinates
- 51.37729, -0.96093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowyer's Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is primarily constructed of brick, featuring vertical strips of vitreous brick between the bays and between the outer bays and quoins, with some parts being timber framed and filled with brick. It has an old tile gabled roof and is designed in an L-shape with an outshut at the rear. The farmhouse has two storeys and attics, with flanking chimneys and one on the rear gable. The front features a plinth, a first-floor string, and coped gable ends.
The entrance front consists of five bays, with 4-light wooden mullioned and transomed windows. The central door is six-panelled and has an architrave surround, topped with a flat moulded hood supported by cut scroll brackets, and a panel between the door and the hood. Above the door is a date panel inscribed with "B L M 17 49." There are two attic lights in the gable ends, one of which is blocked. At the rear, two framed bays are visible on the west wall. Inside, there is an 18th-century staircase featuring turned balusters and a moulded handrail, as well as a bread oven in the rear chimney that projects from the external wall.
Local climate
Bowyer's Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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