Bowyers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1995. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Bowyers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- roaming-tower-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1995
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bowyers Cottage, Commercial End, Swaffham Bulbeck, CB25 0NE
- OS grid reference
- TL 557 631
- Coordinates
- 52.24493, 0.27949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowyers Cottage, together with No. 74, is a pair of cottages dating from the early 19th century, although it may incorporate an earlier core possibly dating from 1730. The cottages were likely built for Thomas Bowyer, who died in 1824. They are of timber-frame construction with rendered walls, and have a pantile roof topped by a brick ridge stack. Originally, the cottages likely consisted of a single unit with a pantry plan. They are single-storey with an attic, and have a seven-window front with single- and two-light windows, some featuring horizontal sliding sashes. Four dormers with horizontal sliding sashes light the attic. The interiors have not been inspected. The cottages are little altered and were probably built, or remodelled, by Thomas Bowyer for his workforce. He was a local merchant involved in trading activities on the Swaffham Lode, operating from a nearby wharf.
Local climate
Bowyers Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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