Bower Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. House. 3 related planning applications.
Bower Cottages
- WRENN ID
- dark-steel-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bower Cottages, 1, 2 and 3, the Street, Mersham, TN25 6NG
- OS grid reference
- TR 052 397
- Coordinates
- 51.12043, 0.93181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bower Cottages is an early 18th-century house pair, located on the east side of The Street in Mersham. The cottages are constructed of red and blue brick with a plain tiled roof. They are one storey and attic in height, with a half-hipped roof featuring four hipped dormers and stacks positioned to the left and right. The front elevation has four segmentally headed wooden casement windows, as well as boarded doors located centrally to the left and right, both within segmentally headed surrounds. A catslide roof extension projects from the rear.
Local climate
Bower Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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