Bowden, Schoolhouse Bowden, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Bowden, Schoolhouse has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 330201 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 23
- Canmore ID
- 106816
- Category
- C
- Name
- Bowden, Schoolhouse Including Boundary Walls
- Parish
- Bowden
- County
- Scottish Borders
- Easting
- 355422
- Northing
- 630520
- Date Listed
- 23 June 2003
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Dated 1861, possibly incorporating earlier fabric. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan former schoolhouse. Roughly coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings. N ELEVATION: symmetrical. Centre bay with corniced door (altered to window), windows in flanking bays and regular fenestration close to eaves at first floor. S ELEVATION: rear elevation, detail obscured by boundary wall.. E ELEVATION: blank gabled elevation with dominant gablehead stack and high boundary wall abutting at outer left. W ELEVATION: as E elevation but with gate at outer right adjoining boundary wall. 4- and 12-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with full complement of cans, some polygonal. Ashlar-coped skews. BOUNDARY WALLS: high rubble boundary walls, that to W semicircular-coped.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Groome GAZETTEER VOL I, p182.
