Bowens And Railings. Gatepiers And Outbuilding

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.