Gay Bowers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. House. 4 related planning applications.
Gay Bowers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-rafter-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gay Bowers Cottage, Gay Bowers Lane, Danbury, CM3 4JG
- OS grid reference
- TL 791 043
- Coordinates
- 51.70914, 0.59094
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gay Bowers Cottage is an early 19th century brick house, with the front painted. The building has two storeys and a three-window range. It features tall casements on the front, with small bowed iron balconies on the outer windows of the first storey. The central window and the rear windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The central doorway is adorned with pilasters and a cornice hood supported by shaped brackets. The roof is hipped and covered with slate.
Local climate
Gay Bowers 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 7 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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