Cowley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1982. House.
Cowley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-rubble-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cowley Cottage, Lea Main Road, Lea, Matlock, Dethick, Lea and Holloway
- OS grid reference
- SK 331 574
- Coordinates
- 53.11336, -1.50594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cowley Cottage is a house dated 1692 that incorporates elements of an earlier ecclesiastical building, along with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of massive ashlar gritstone and coursed squared gritstone, featuring quoins, plain gables, and gable end stone stacks, one of which has a moulded cap. The roof is plain tiled.
The building consists of two contiguous ranges; the southern range is taller and has three bays, while the northern range has two bays. The east elevation of the south range displays an irregular pattern of openings, including a flat arched three-light window with chamfered mullions and trefoil heads, and above it, a two-light chamfer mullioned window with deeply moulded reveals. To the north, there is a chamfered quoined surround to a doorway with a heavy lintel inscribed "AR 1692" and a 20th-century half-glazed door, along with a small fixed light above featuring a pointed arched head.
The lower north range includes a window and a blocked doorway on the ground floor, as well as an altered 18th-century window within a stone surround. The rear elevation has an interrupted continuous dripmould at the first floor level.
Local climate
Cowley Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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