Dowdes is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Dowdes
- WRENN ID
- stony-cobalt-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dowdes, Lawrence Lane, Buckland
- OS grid reference
- TQ 228 516
- Coordinates
- 51.25044, -0.24173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dowdes is a cottage that dates back to the 17th century, with extensions made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is clad in 19th and 20th-century brick at the bottom and tile hung above, topped with a plain tiled roof. The cottage is two storeys high and has a rebuilt chimney stack to the right of the center. On the first floor, there are three casement windows, with the outer ones being three-light. A hip-roofed dormer in the center has an attic window. The ground floor includes two windows, plus an additional window in a pentice extension to the right. The central entrance is a half-glazed door situated under an open gable hood supported by brackets. At the rear, some of the framing is exposed on the first floor, with brick infilling. There is a catslide extension at the center of the rear, with a dormer window above.
Local climate
Dowdes receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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