Bowden Farmhouse

Bowden Farmhouse is a late medieval longhouse with later additions, constructed from granite rubble. It features a slated roof that is half-hipped at the right-hand end, while the front slope of the house part is thatched. There is a granite chimney with thatch weatherings and a tapered top located at the center of the ridge, along with an older chimney with thatch weatherings on the left-hand gable. Additionally, there is an 18th-century granite chimney with an attached brick shaft on the rear wall, slightly off-center to the right.

The layout includes a through-passage with a hall and inner room to the left, and a kitchen and shippon to the right; the kitchen occupies one end of the original shippon. The hall fireplace backs onto the through-passage, while the kitchen fireplace is positioned in the rear wall. An 18th or 19th-century entrance porch features a chamfer above. The farmhouse is two storeys tall, with single-storey additions. The house part has three windows, which are 20th-century wood and metal casements lacking glazing bars. The entrance porch is gabled and has decorative slate-hanging on the verges, with a shouldered-head wood inner doorway that is likely medieval, encased in 19th-century panels.

To the left of the porch is a shallow rectangular projection with a pent roof, possibly a former stair turret. The shippon on the right has two ventilation slits, with the left-hand slit blocked to accommodate the kitchen. In front of the left side of the shippon is a lean-to linhay, its posts now infilled with stone rubble. Projecting at right angles from the right-hand side is a range of pigsties.

The interior retains a remarkable 19th-century atmosphere, with most of the old plaster wall surfaces still intact. Although few early features are exposed, it is likely that more exist. The roof trusses have short curved feet, but the roof space is not accessible.