Cow Close Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
Cow Close Cottages
- WRENN ID
- scattered-wicket-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford South MP: Judith Cummins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cow Close Cottages, 1 and 2, Cow Close Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 165 268
- Coordinates
- 53.73762, -1.75039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cow Close Cottages, formerly known as Nos 1 and 2 (Cow Close), is a former farmhouse that likely dates from the latter part of the 17th century. The building is two storeys high and constructed from irregularly coursed gritstone, topped with a stone slate roof. On the first floor, there are two four-light windows, while the ground floor features two five-light windows, all equipped with drip moulds, chamfered mullions, and splayed reveals. The entrance includes a chamfered doorway that is topped with a massive pediment-shaped lintel.
Local climate
Cow Close Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% 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 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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