Bowyer House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. House.
Bowyer House
- WRENN ID
- solitary-latch-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bowyer House, Old Coach Road, Compton Bishop
- OS grid reference
- ST 418 548
- Coordinates
- 51.28952, -2.835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowyer House is a house dating from the late 18th century. It features colourwashed pebbledash and has a parapet with a plain coping that ramps up slightly at each end. The roof is made of pantiles, with coped verges and rendered stacks. The building is symmetrical, standing three storeys tall with three bays. The windows are flush mounted sash windows, with 16 panes on the ground and first floors and 12 panes on the second floor. There is a central door opening with a six-panelled door, where the top two panels are glazed, and it has a flat wooden hood supported by moulded brackets. Bowyer House is attached to the New Inn.
Local climate
Bowyer House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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