Knowles Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1986. House.
Knowles Mill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- south-porch-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Knowles Mill Cottage, Dowles Brook, Bewdley
- OS grid reference
- SO 762 765
- Coordinates
- 52.38669, -2.35088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knowles Mill Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century, with some alterations from the mid-19th century and mid-20th century. It is constructed of random sandstone rubble with brick dressings and features a machine tile roof with a gable end stack on the right side. The cottage is two storeys high and has a dentilled brick cornice.
On the upper floor, there are two windows: a 2-light casement window on the left and a 3-light casement window on the right. The ground floor includes a 24-pane boxed sash window under a segmental head to the left and a 3-light casement window under a segmental head to the right. The central entrance is framed by a wooden architrave and is topped with a flat canopy, featuring a 20th-century ledged and boarded door.
Local climate
Knowles Mill Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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