78, Bower Yard is a Grade II listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1974. Cottage.
78, Bower Yard
- WRENN ID
- brooding-window-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- Telford MP: Shaun Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 78, Bower Yard, the Gorge
- OS grid reference
- SJ 669 034
- Coordinates
- 52.62808, -2.49001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 78 Bower Yard is an early 19th-century cottage that has undergone later alterations. It is constructed of painted brick and features one storey with an attic. The cottage has casement windows with segmental heads, and there is a rectangular oriel window on the right-hand side. Three gabled dormers break below the eaves, and there is a modern doorway with a wooden porch. The roof is gable-ended and covered with tiles.
Local climate
78, Bower Yard receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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