Rowan Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Cottage.
Rowan Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-bonework-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rowan Cottage, Low Street, Bardwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 941 730
- Coordinates
- 52.32081, 0.84732
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rowan Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the west side of Low Street in Bardwell. It is two storeys high, constructed with a timber frame and rendered exterior, topped with a pantiled roof. The cottage features a large end chimney stack with a tall rectangular shaft that has sunk panels. On the ground storey, there is a canted bow window with small panes, while the upper storey has a two-light casement window. The entrance is marked by a plank door that is topped with an open triangular pediment. This structure may be a fragment of a larger house.
Local climate
Rowan 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% 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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