Bowens and Railings. Gatepiers and Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1965. House.
Bowens and Railings. Gatepiers and Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- guardian-dormer-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1965
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bowens and Railings. Gatepiers and Outbuilding, Church Street, Braunton
- OS grid reference
- SS 489 370
- Coordinates
- 51.11261, -4.15888
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowens and Railings is a house, formerly a farmhouse, built around the mid-19th century. It features a rubble stone construction with a slate roof and a cornice, along with brick stacks at each gable end. The building is two storeys high and has a two-storey outshut at the rear, presenting a symmetrical plan.
The front facade includes two large timber sash windows, each with eight panes over eight panes, flanking a smaller sash window with six panes over six panes. These are situated above a round-arched doorway that has a carved keystone and a six-panelled door with a blocked fanlight. All windows have stone sills, and the openings are topped with painted stone lintels. Notable decorative features include lion heads in relief on the guttering and a continuous facade plat-band made of reset 15th and 16th-century stonework, consisting of roughly square blocks, some of which still display carvings, albeit weathered, with various quatrefoil and foliated designs.
A rubble wall extends from the front left end of the house, capped with flat dressed stone, and it transitions to a low rubble wall on each side of the rubble gate piers, which serve as a base for iron railings that sweep up at the ends, featuring spearheaded shafts interspersed with classical urn heads. The gate piers have square dressed stone cappings and each includes a single block of carved reset 15th or 16th-century stone near the base. The single-leaf gate is made of iron with spear-headed bars and dogbars.
An outbuilding extends at right angles from the right-hand gable end, now functioning as a garage. This structure is also built of rubble and has a scantle slate roof that is hipped at the front, with a slated lean-to roof behind. It features a plank door with two leaves and small square niches in the flanking gate piers.
Local climate
Bowens and Railings. Gatepiers and Outbuilding sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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