Cowels is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1983. House.
Cowels
- WRENN ID
- heavy-wattle-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cowels, Cowels Lane, Lindsell
- OS grid reference
- TL 632 281
- Coordinates
- 51.92817, 0.37262
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cowels is a house dating from the 16th century, incorporating remains of a 14th-century cross-wing and featuring extensions from the 17th century. It has a timber frame that is plastered, with the frame exposed on the outside, and a red plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and an L-shaped plan, with the original cross-wing on the left, which was extended forward in the early 17th century. There is a range of one to two modern leaded casement windows and a 20th-century gabled porch. A mid-16th-century red brick chimney stack has been rebuilt at the top. Inside, there are stop-chamfered floor joists and beams, along with a roll-moulded mantel beam. The house is situated on a moated site.
Local climate
Cowels sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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