Bowerhill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 2002. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Bowerhill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
iron-pier-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 2002
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Bowerhill Farmhouse, Spa Road, Melksham Without, SN12 6QN
OS grid reference
ST 914 625
Coordinates
51.36225, -2.12402
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bowerhill Farmhouse is a circa early 18th-century farmhouse, extended in the 19th century. It is constructed from limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins and window frames. The roof is steeply pitched and covered in stone slates, with axial and side stacks featuring red brick shafts.

The original layout comprised a two-room front range with a central entrance passage leading to a large kitchen in a short service wing to the left. This service wing was later extended to the rear.

The north east front is symmetrical with three bays. It features large casement windows with horizontal glazing bars on both floors. A blocked 2-light window on the first floor retains its original cyma moulded stone frame. The central doorway has a chamfered stone frame and a circa late 19th-century glazed and panelled door. A gabled dormer window is located to the left of centre. The rear wing has a gabled end and consists of the original range with small windows in cyma moulded stone frames, and a later extension with casement windows. Stone and later glazed outshuts are present on the south east and north west sides respectively.

The large kitchen in the rear wing features chamfered cross-beams with run-out stops. The front rooms contain Victorian style chimneypieces. Other interior features include panelled doors and a winder staircase.

Local climate

Bowerhill Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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