The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Hillingdon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1970. House.

The Old House

WRENN ID
gentle-tracery-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hillingdon
Constituency
Uxbridge and South Ruislip MP: Danny Beales (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 December 1970
Type
House
Address
The Old House, High Street
OS grid reference
TQ 053 823
Coordinates
51.53062, -0.48228
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old House is an 18th-century building located on the west side of High Street in Cowley. It is a two-storey house with an attic and features three windows. The roof is hipped and covered with swept tiles, and it has two later hipped dormers. The eaves have a bracketed soffit. The front of the house is now rendered, but a brick dentil cornice is still visible. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, and those on the ground floor are situated under console bracketed cornices. The entrance door has four fielded panels and two beaded panels, topped with a traceried fanlight. This door is framed by a doorcase featuring fluted and reeded columns, a broken entablature with an enriched cornice, and an open pediment above a coffered intrados.

Local climate

The Old House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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