South Cowpen Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1985. Cottage.
South Cowpen Cottage
- WRENN ID
- western-rampart-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- South Cowpen Cottage, Fittleworth Road, Kirdford, Chichester
- OS grid reference
- TQ 029 242
- Coordinates
- 51.00838, -0.53343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Cowpen Cottage is a cottage, probably from the 16th century, that has been altered. It is built of squared Wealden sandstone rubble and has a tiled roof. The cottage features a two-room plan with a continuous later outshut and a single-storey addition currently under construction on the left side. The front elevation has two storeys and three bays. The solid door and diamond-pane leaded casement windows were added during a restoration around 1900. The ground floor windows have basket arched heads, and the spandrels are carved with "C" and "M," representing Catherine, the niece of William Morris. Inside, the sitting room includes a bressumer over the fireplace and joists that are all chamfered with shield stops. The roof is underdrawn and features carved bosses from around 1900.
Local climate
South Cowpen Cottage 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 greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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