7a Bowden Old Forge and 8, 9 and 10 is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Cottages.

7a Bowden Old Forge and 8, 9 and 10

WRENN ID
dusted-arch-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Trafford
Constituency
Altrincham and Sale West MP: Mr Connor Rand (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1979
Type
Cottages
Address
7a Bowden Old Forge and 8, 9 and 10, Church Brow
OS grid reference
SJ 757 868
Coordinates
53.37776, -2.36582
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 7A (Bowdon Old Forge), 8, 9, and 10 are a group of four cottages dating from the 18th century, located on Bowdon Park Road. The buildings are constructed of brick and topped with a slate roof. Nos. 8, 9, and 10 are three one-bay, two-storey cottages, while No. 7A, which incorporates a shop, has two storeys and features a gable facing the road. Each cottage has a segmental-headed brick arch window opening to the left and a door to the right, except for No. 8, which has flat arches. There is a flat-headed opening on the first floor of each cottage. The row has three ridge stacks. No. 7A includes one 20th-century multi-paned window on the ground floor, two 20th-century flat-headed openings on the first floor, and a small 20th-century shop extension to the right.

Local climate

7a Bowden Old Forge and 8, 9 and 10 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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