Dun Cow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. House.
Dun Cow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- young-parapet-starling
- 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
- House
- Address
- Dun Cow Cottage, Up Street, Bardwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 943 738
- Coordinates
- 52.32862, 0.85033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dun Cow Cottage is an 18th-century house that stands two storeys high. It features a timber frame and roughcast exterior, topped with a slate roof. The cottage has an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft and a lobby entrance. On the ground floor, there are two early 19th-century two-light casement windows and two small-paned sash windows. The upper storey has 20th-century casement windows, and the door is also from the 20th century.
Local climate
Dun Cow 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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