The Estate Yard at Bowood House with Attached Lodge and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. Estate yard. 2 related planning applications.
The Estate Yard at Bowood House with Attached Lodge and Gates
- WRENN ID
- guardian-tin-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1986
- Type
- Estate yard
- Address
- The Estate Yard at Bowood House with Attached Lodge and Gates, SN11 0LZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 974 699
- Coordinates
- 51.42858, -2.03866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Estate Yard at Bowood House, dating from the mid-19th century, serves as a service court for Bowood House. It is constructed of rubble stone with brick dressings and features slate roofs, with part of it leaning against earlier rubble stone enclosing walls. The layout is a courtyard plan with continuous ranges on three sides, which include former store-rooms, sculleries, a coach-house, and a fire-engine house. The doors and windows have brick surrounds with glazing bars. There is a covered entry at the north end of the east range.
On the west wall, there is a half-octagonal game-larder that has louvred openings in brick surrounds and a louvred octagonal timber lantern. Attached to the west side of the east wall is a lean-to that was formerly a coach-house and lodge, featuring six ashlar Roman Doric columns. Three bays remain open while the rest are enclosed. The lodge at the south end is adjacent to a ramped ashlar screen wall that leads to 19th-century corniced gatepiers with heavy timber gates. The wall ramps up on the other side to the west wall of Bowood House. To the right of the main gates, there is a pedestrian gate with a six-panel door, and a matching blank recess is located to the left of the gates.
Local climate
The Estate Yard at Bowood House with Attached Lodge and Gates receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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