Bowden Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Bowden Head Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- endless-cloister-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bowden Head Farmhouse, Bowden Lane, Chapel-En-Le-Frith, High Peak, SK23 0QP
- OS grid reference
- SK 069 820
- Coordinates
- 53.33521, -1.89757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowden Head Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century and restoration in the 20th century. It is constructed from coursed gritstone rubble and features large quoins and gritstone dressings. The roof is primarily covered with stone slates, except for the south-west slope, which is in slate. The building has a stone-coped gabled bay with moulded kneelers, a stone gable end, and large ridge stacks.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has four bays. On the south elevation, there is an advanced gabled bay with a central three-light chamfered mullion window. To the east, there is a three-light recessed and chamfered mullion window with a dripmould above it. To the west, there is a plank door with a flush surround and a three-light flush mullion window above. Above the door, there is a two-light chamfered mullion window. To the east, there is another window above with a dripmould on an inserted lintel inscribed 'CSES 1672 and IL 1816', and above that, there is a two-light mullion window.
Local climate
Bowden Head Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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