Windabout is a Grade II listed building in the Basingstoke and Deane local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
Windabout
- WRENN ID
- narrow-zinc-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Constituency
- North East Hampshire MP: Alex Brewer (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Windabout, Simms Farm Lane, Mortimer West End, RG7 2JP
- OS grid reference
- SU 647 640
- Coordinates
- 51.37163, -1.07128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Windabout is a house dating to the 17th and 18th centuries. It is two storeys high and has three windows. The roof is thatched, with a gabled southern end featuring a large, tapered chimney stack. The northern end of the roof is hipped, and there is a catslide roof at the rear, along with eyebrow dormers. The house has an exposed timber frame, except for the southern end, with painted brick infill and other walling materials. Casement windows are present, and there is a modern boarded front door.
Local climate
Windabout receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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