Bowd Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1973. Cottage.
Bowd Cottage
- WRENN ID
- standing-screen-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bowd Cottage, Sidmouth
- OS grid reference
- SY 107 900
- Coordinates
- 50.70313, -3.26554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowd Cottage is a two-storey cob cottage dating from 1655, featuring a gable at the front and a thatched roof. It has a three-light casement window on both floors and an entrance located on the side. This cottage is part of a hamlet situated on the north-west boundary of the urban district. Bowd Cottage, along with Bowd Inn, Bowd Farmhouse, the Barn, and the yard wall of Bowd Farmhouse, forms a group of buildings.
Local climate
Bowd Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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