Bowness is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1985. House.

Bowness

WRENN ID
roaming-loggia-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1985
Type
House
Address
Bowness, Ennerdale and Kinniside, Cumberland
OS grid reference
NY 107 155
Coordinates
54.52717, -3.38001
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bowness is a house that likely dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with later additions and alterations. It is built of wet-dashed rubble on a boulder plinth and features a graduated slate roof with a full-width outshut at the rear. The house has rendered mid chimneys, with the southern chimney being larger and stepped. It is a single storey building with an attic and consists of three bays, along with an attached garage and store.

The entrance has a studded plank door set in a central gabled porch, flanked by single casement windows in stone surrounds on either side, and two dormer windows above. To the far left is a plank garage door, and to the far right is a plank store door. At the rear, there are three windows, with the central one originally being mullioned and featuring a chamfered stone surround.

Inside, the front room to the south has crucks boxed in on either side of the inglenook fireplace. The interior retains mostly original doors, which are either plank or panelled.

Local climate

Bowness sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,550 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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