Cowper Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1965. Cottage.
Cowper Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-bracket-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1965
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cowper Cottage, Road to Bricklehampton, Elmley Castle
- OS grid reference
- SO 982 414
- Coordinates
- 52.07156, -2.02664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cowper Cottage is a 17th-century building constructed with a timber frame and plaster on stone foundations. It is a single-storey structure with attics. The cottage features modern or restored moulded wood casements and has a modern thatched porch. The gable ends include a north end that is tied to an adjoining building, while the south end is made of stone and has two small splayed lights, rising to a stone stack. The roof is thatched and there are two dormers. Cowper Cottage, along with Ivy Cottage, an adjoining outbuilding, and a former barn to Ivy Cottage, form a group.
Local climate
Cowper Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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