Bowyer House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. A Georgian Charity school.
Bowyer House
- WRENN ID
- final-vault-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Charity school
- Address
- Bowyer House, Village Road, Denham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 043 870
- Coordinates
- 51.57251, -0.49635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowyer House, formerly the Charity School, is a building constructed in 1721. It features red and grey brickwork and has a hipped roof covered with old tiles. The building is two storeys high and has a range of three 2-light casement windows with flush surrounds and leaded lights. On the ground floor, there is a Venetian-type window flanked by brick super arches, with a central door above which is a panel inscribed: "In the year of Our Lord 1721, This Charity School was Erected by Subscription of ye Inhabitants of this Parish and Other well disposed Persons and is perpetually Endowed by Sir William Bowyer Bart, of Denham Court with Thirty Pounds Pr. Annum. Go and Do Likewise."
Local climate
Bowyer House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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