Swiss Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Southampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1981. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Swiss Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-stone-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southampton
- Constituency
- Southampton Test MP: Satvir Kaur (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1981
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Swiss Cottage, Portswood Avenue, City of Southampton, SO17 2HE
- OS grid reference
- SU 426 139
- Coordinates
- 50.9234, -1.39468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swiss Cottage is a late 19th-century villa designed in the style of a Swiss cottage. It has two storeys, with the ground floor constructed of flint and the first floor made of yellow brick featuring applied timber-framing adorned with quatrefoil motifs. The roof is slate, incorporating some fishscale tiles, and the building has gable ends. It also features metal casement windows and a wood and glazed verandah on the ground floor.
Local climate
Swiss Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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