Bowden Cottage the Rowans is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1972. House.
Bowden Cottage the Rowans
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bowden Cottage the Rowans, 28, London Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 002 498
- Coordinates
- 51.23863, -0.56484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowden Cottage, also known as No. 30 (formerly listed as Lass Cottage), is a house that has been converted into two cottages. It dates from the early 19th century and has 20th-century extensions added to the left and rear. The front is made of yellow stock brick, with red brick walls on the sides and low-pitched hipped slate roofs. The building has two storeys and features square red brick stacks with dentilled tops at both the front and rear on the left side, along with another stack on the right.
The central bay is pedimented and includes a lunette window and a plat band at the deep eaves. On the first floor, there are three 12-pane glazing-bar sash windows, with the central window having a wooden canopy, all set beneath gauged-brick heads. The ground floor has canted bay sash windows with moulded wood surrounds on the outer bays, and a central 12-pane glazing-bar sash window with a canopy. To the left of center, there is a 19th-century five-panel door beneath a fanlight, situated in a round-arched trellis porch (The Rowans). There is also a further glazed door to the left. The two-storey extension at the left end features one 12-pane glazing-bar sash window above a 20th-century panelled door with margin lights and fluted jambs.
Local climate
Bowden Cottage the Rowans receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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