April Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Basingstoke and Deane local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
April Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-quoin-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Constituency
- North West Hampshire MP: Kit Malthouse (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- April Cottage, Dark Lane, Sherborne St. John
- OS grid reference
- SU 624 553
- Coordinates
- 51.2943, -1.10546
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
April Cottage is a 17th-century building featuring one storey and an attic with irregular window arrangements. It has a thatched roof that is hipped at the west end and includes eyebrow dormers. The north side of the cottage displays an exposed timber frame with painted brick infill, while the south side is constructed of painted brickwork with cambered openings on the ground floor and a central thatched porch. The windows are casements.
Local climate
April Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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