Bow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. A C18 Cottage. 8 related planning applications.
Bow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-tallow-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bow Cottage, 1, High Street, Fordwich, CT2 0DH
- OS grid reference
- TR 180 597
- Coordinates
- 51.29498, 1.12628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bow Cottage is a building with 18th-century origins, likely refronted in the early to mid-19th century. It is located on the east side of Fordwich High Street, combined with Nos 3 and 4. The building is two storeys and constructed of brick, with a hipped tile roof. The upper floor has four windows, which are hung sashes with glazing bars. The ground floor has one modern window to Bow Cottage, a modern bow window to Bow Cottage, and two hung sashes with glazing bars to Nos 3 and 4. These ground-floor windows are topped with slightly segmental arches and rendered lintels, like the doors. The door to Bow Cottage has a hood supported by brackets.
Local climate
Bow Cottage 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 11 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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