Bow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Cottage.
Bow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-oriel-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bow Cottage, Elvet Hill Road, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 269 413
- Coordinates
- 54.7665, -1.58191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bow Cottage is a cemetery lodge built around 1820. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof and rendered chimneys in a Tudor style. The building is one storey high and features four bays.
The central two-bay porch, which projects forward, contains a door on the left with Tudor-arched ledged boarded panelling. To the right, there is a wood cross window with diagonal glazing bars set in a chamfered surround beneath a label mould. Similar windows are found in the outer bays. The low-pitched hipped roof has wide eaves that extend over the porch, and there are rendered chimneys at the ridge and rear. The cottage is marked on the Ordnance Survey map as St Cuthbert's Cottage.
Local climate
Bow Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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