Bowles Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. Farmhouse.

Bowles Farmhouse

WRENN ID
distant-plaster-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Test Valley
Constituency
Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Bowles Farmhouse, Sherfield English Lane, Melchet Park and Plaitford
OS grid reference
SU 281 206
Coordinates
50.98478, -1.60041
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bowles Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that was altered in the 19th century. It features a timber-frame structure with brick infill and rebuilding, topped with a thatched roof. The building is one and a half storeys high and has three bays, with the ground floor timber-frame replaced. The front of the farmhouse includes a planked door with a segmental head to the right of the left bay, and a 20th-century two-light leaded casement window next to a three-light casement window in the other bays. Above each bay, there are two-light casement windows in eyebrow dormers. The roof is half-hipped with a ridge piece, and there is a large ridge stack located immediately to the right of the door and on the right hip of the roof.

Local climate

Bowles Farmhouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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