The School House, Bowden is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 2003. Schoolhouse. 2 related planning applications.
The School House, Bowden
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-soffit-crag
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 June 2003
- Type
- Schoolhouse
- Address
- The School House, Bowden, TD6 0ST
- OS grid reference
- NT 554 305
- Coordinates
- 55.5663, -2.70841
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The School House in Bowden, dated 1861 and possibly incorporating earlier materials, is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan former schoolhouse. It is constructed of roughly coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings.
The north elevation is symmetrical, featuring a central bay with a corniced door that has been altered to a window, flanked by windows in the outer bays and regular fenestration near the eaves on the first floor. The south elevation is the rear, but its details are obscured by a boundary wall.
The east elevation is a blank gabled wall with a prominent gablehead stack and a high boundary wall on the outer left. The west elevation mirrors the east but includes a gate at the outer right next to the boundary wall.
The windows are timber sash and case with 4- and 12-pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks with a full set of cans, some of which are polygonal. The skews are also ashlar-coped.
The boundary walls are high and constructed of rubble, with the western wall featuring a semicircular coping.
Local climate
The School House, Bowden receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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