Bowhouse

Bowhouse is a mid-19th century farmhouse featuring a Tudor-style gabled facade designed by Alexander Tod in the late 19th century. The building is two stories tall and has three bays. It is constructed from squared and snecked red sandstone, with coursed rubble on the sides and rear, and contrasting stugged ashlar quoins and margins. There are base and eaves courses, and the principal elevation showcases a corniced and pilastered doorcase with a blocking course, along with stop-chamfered arrises and stone mullions.

On the southwest (principal) elevation, there is a panelled timber door with a plate glass fanlight at the center of the ground floor, and a bipartite window on the first floor. The outer bays are slightly advanced, with the right bay featuring a canted tripartite window and a blocking course at ground level, a bipartite window above, and a narrow round-headed light in the finialled gablehead. The left bay has a tripartite window at the ground, first floor, and gablehead similar to the right.

The southeast elevation includes a broad gabled bay to the left of center, with windows positioned off-center at ground level and to the outer right on the first floor. There are two regularly fenestrated recessed bays to the outer right.

The northeast elevation has an M-gable design, with a ground floor that includes a boarded timber door to the left, a small adjacent window to the right, and another window in the center bay. The first floor features windows in the center bay and to the outer right and left.

The northwest elevation is asymmetrical and displays a variety of elements, including a broad gabled bay to the right of center and a projecting single-storey piended wing to the left.

The windows are timber sash and case with 4-pane and plate glass glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks with cans, as well as gablet ashlar coped skews with moulded skewputts.

The interior was not seen in 1998 but is noted to have two timber staircases and working shutters. The property is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls and gatepiers.