Messengers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Basingstoke and Deane local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Messengers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-steel-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Constituency
- North West Hampshire MP: Kit Malthouse (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Messengers Cottage, Highclere, RG20 9PY
- OS grid reference
- SU 433 591
- Coordinates
- 51.33008, -1.3793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Messengers Cottage is a timber-framed house dating from the 16th century, with early 19th-century additions and alterations. It is a one-storey and attic building with a thatched roof, which is half-hipped at the ends and has a catslide above a forward projection. Eyebrow dormers are present, with cills at eaves level. The timber frame is exposed on the north and east sides, with brick infilling; the remaining walls are brick, incorporating both English and Flemish Garden Wall bond. Casement windows are visible, and there is a boarded door set within a solid frame.
Local climate
Messengers Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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