Bowns Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Bowns Cottage

WRENN ID
woven-bonework-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Harborough
Constituency
South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 March 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Bowns Cottage, Main Street, Ashby Parva, LE17 5HY
OS grid reference
SP 528 882
Coordinates
52.48971, -1.22279
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bown's Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has been clad in early 19th-century materials. It features a timber frame, with some of the original timber frame exposed at the front, and was re-clad in red brick in the late 20th century. The cottage has a slate roof with an end stack to the left, which is coupled with the stack of Mason's Cottage nearby. It stands two storeys high and has an irregular arrangement of windows, with two casement windows on both the first and ground floors.

Local climate

Bowns Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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