Cowden Park, Stirling Road, Alloa is a Grade C listed building in the Clackmannanshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 June 1977. House. 2 related planning applications.

Cowden Park, Stirling Road, Alloa

WRENN ID
inner-crypt-aspen
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Clackmannanshire
Constituency
Alloa and Grangemouth MP: Brian Leishman (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 June 1977
Type
House
Address
Cowden Park, Stirling Road, Alloa, FK10 2AY
OS grid reference
NS 878 932
Coordinates
56.11853, -3.80606
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Cowden Park, located on Stirling Road in Alloa, is a Tudor-Jacobean style building designed by John Melvin around 1850. It is a two-storey structure with a nearly symmetrical southwest front featuring twin gables. The left gable includes a rectangular tripartite bay with a tripartite window above it, while the right gable has a canted bay with a single window above. The northwest elevation has a porch with a thickly moulded shouldered lintel, and there is a set-back crenellated screen wall on the southeast side. A terrace is present on the southwest. The building is harled with margins and has a slated roof, along with octagonal shafted chimneys.

Local climate

Cowden Park, Stirling Road, Alloa sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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