Cowdenlaws is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1999. Farmhouse.
Cowdenlaws
- WRENN ID
- distant-passage-sparrow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1999
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NT 306 955
- Coordinates
- 56.14791, -3.1183
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cowdenlaws is a traditional farmhouse dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. It is a two-storey, three-bay building with a rectangular plan. The structure is made of rubble with harl on the sides and rear, featuring droved ashlar quoins and raised margins, as well as base and eaves courses.
The principal elevation faces southeast and is symmetrical, with an ashlar doorway at the center flanked by windows in the outer bays. The first floor has regular fenestration close to the eaves. The northwest elevation has a part-glazed boarded timber door at the center on the ground floor, with a window above it, and single-storey wings projecting from the outer bays.
The windows are timber sash and case with a 4-pane glazing pattern. The building has coped squared rubble stacks with cans and ashlar-coped skews.
Local climate
Cowdenlaws receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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