42, Cowgate is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1973. House.

42, Cowgate

WRENN ID
other-casement-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peterborough
Constituency
Peterborough MP: Andrew Pakes (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 May 1973
Type
House
Address
42, Cowgate, City of Peterborough
OS grid reference
TL 189 986
Coordinates
52.57278, -0.24625
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

42 Cowgate is an early 19th-century building that stands two storeys tall with attics. It is constructed of painted brick and features a temporary iron roof. The façade includes two flat-topped dormers with double-hung sash windows that have glazing bars. There is a wooden eaves cornice and two additional windows with flat arches, also double-hung sashes with glazing bars. To the left, there is a six-fielded door topped by an ornamental glazed semi-circular fanlight. The building has a modern glazed shop front from the late 19th century. Nos 42 to 50 (even) form a group.

Local climate

42, Cowgate sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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