8, Cowleaze Road is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. House. 1 related planning application.

8, Cowleaze Road

WRENN ID
waiting-sandstone-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 March 1983
Type
House
Address
8, Cowleaze Road, Swanage, BH19 2QE
OS grid reference
SZ 025 786
Coordinates
50.60757, -1.96601
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 8 Cowleaze Road is a building that likely dates from the 18th century. It features rendered walls and a roof made of Purbeck Stone. The structure is two storeys tall. On the ground floor, there is an original entrance door accompanied by a modern part-glazed porch. The ground floor also includes one canted bay window with double-hung sashes that have glazing bars, as well as one casement window. On the first floor, there are two casement windows. This building is noted as the least altered among the houses on Cowleaze Road.

Local climate

8, Cowleaze Road receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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