Powney's Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. House.

Powney's Cottages

WRENN ID
roaming-baluster-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 April 1987
Type
House
Address
Powney's Cottages, 1 and 2, Bowden Hill, Bromham
OS grid reference
ST 942 680
Coordinates
51.41114, -2.08443
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Powney's Cottages, located on Bowden Hill in Bromham, is a former bailiff's house to Spye Park, dating from the mid-19th century. The building features an ashlar front with ironstone rubble on the other sides and has hipped slate roofs. It is designed in an L-plan, with two storeys and a formal front that has three windows. The stone mullion windows are adorned with hoodmoulds and small-paned iron casements. There are three-light windows on each side, and a two-light window is situated in the centre of the first floor above double doors that lead into a gabled ashlar porch with a Tudor-arched doorway. The rear wing on the west side has similar two-light windows with hoodmoulds on each floor. The east end wall also features similar two-light windows on each floor, with a door in a gabled porch to the right and similar two-light windows on each floor of the added parallel rear range.

Local climate

Powney's Cottages receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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