This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
SS 54 SE EAST DOWN
2/1 Bowden Farmhouse - II
Farmhouse, C16 or earlier, with late C18 dairy and C19 kitchen extensions to rear. Rendered shale with some cob. Slate roof with lateral gable ends and gable end brick stack. Slate-hanging on wall at lower end of C19 extension. 3 cell plan with cross-passage, now blocked, possibly originally open hall, now 2 storeys. Lower end has 2 inserted C20 casements above plain door to left and C20 porch to cross-passage doorway. To right 2 C20 inserted casements to each side of large lateral stack rendered and heightened with off-sets and pronounced lean. French window at upper end with 2 C20 dormer windows above. Former jetty, evidenced by plastered downstand construction, suggests an open hall.
First floor and roof not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS5741240254
This is part of the Series: IOE\Abbott_L.E. IOE Records for Abbott, L.E.; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
Copyright IoE Mr L.E. Abbott. Source Historic England Archive
Photographer: Abbott, L.E.
Rights Holder: Abbott, L.E.
Brick, Cob, Render, Shale, Slate, Timber, Medieval Farmhouse, Tudor Domestic, Elizabethan Agricultural Dwelling, Dwelling, House, Agriculture And Subsistence, Farm Building, Agricultural Building, Cross Passage House, Monument <By Form>, Dairy, Food And Drink Processing Site, Kitchen, Jettied House, Jettied Building, Timber Framed Building, Timber Framed House, Open Hall House, Hall House