Bowdenhayes

Bowdenhayes is a house dating from 1789, with a verandah and some window features likely added in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of colourwashed stone rubble and has a hipped slate roof on the front block, with a two-span hipped roof at the rear and brick end stacks.

The house has a double depth plan, two rooms wide, with a front door on the left side and a south-facing garden elevation. The exterior is two storeys high, featuring a three-bay garden elevation that includes a prominent six-bay timber Chinese Chippendale verandah with a moulded cornice and a slate hipped roof. The early 19th-century two-leaf glazed doors on either side of the verandah have glazing bars and margin panes. On the first floor, there are three sash windows with margin panes and louvred sun shutters.

The entrance elevation on the left side has a well-crafted panelled front door leading into the front block, topped with a semi-circular fanlight featuring spoke glazing bars. This is framed by a round-headed reeded doorcase with block capitals and a shallow gabled porch supported by ornamental iron sides. There is one first-floor 12-pane sash window with louvred sun shutters and one ground-floor 12-pane sash window to the left of the door. The other elevations maintain 18th or 19th-century sashes and casements, including a notable 32-pane stair sash on the east elevation.

The interior has not been inspected but is likely to contain intact features from the 18th or 19th century. Bowdenhayes is recognized as a very unspoiled example of Georgian architecture.