Bow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1991. House.
Bow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-render-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bow Cottage, Blackawton
- OS grid reference
- SX 807 493
- Coordinates
- 50.33221, -3.67691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bow Cottage is a small house, likely built in the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is constructed of limewashed stone rubble and features a steeply pitched gable-ended roof covered in asbestos. The house has a large stone rubble gable end stack on the left side. The layout consists of two rooms with a central entrance; both rooms are approximately the same size, with the left room heated by the gable end stack, while the right room was probably unheated. In the 20th century, a small single-storey extension was added to the left end of the building. The ground rises at the right end and at the back, which faces the road.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a nearly symmetrical two-window south front. It features small 19th-century two-light casement windows with small panes, and the ground floor windows have slate hoodmoulds. The central doorway has a late 19th-century or 20th-century plank door with a canopy made of corrugated iron. The front plinth is chamfered. The rear elevation, which faces the road, does not have any windows in the original part of the house. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Bow Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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