Dowles Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. Farmhouse.

Dowles Farmhouse

WRENN ID
over-string-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1974
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Dowles Farmhouse, Cowlinge
OS grid reference
TL 707 547
Coordinates
52.16486, 0.49448
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dowel's Farmhouse is an 18th century timber-framed and plastered house. It has one storey and attics, featuring a three-window range. The windows are Georgian casements with "Gothic" arched lights. The entrance has a six-panel door. The roof is pantiled and has a mansard design, with three round-headed dormer windows that also have "Gothic" arched lights.

Local climate

Dowles Farmhouse 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 85% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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