Heron Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Basingstoke and Deane local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1984. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Heron Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-grate-rye
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Heron Cottage, 35, the Street, Old Basing and Lychpit, RG24 7BX
- OS grid reference
- SU 665 529
- Coordinates
- 51.27171, -1.04748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Heron Cottage is an 18th-century building on The Street in Old Basing. It is a two-storey, three-window cottage with an old tile roof, partly hipped. The walls are painted brick in a Flemish bond pattern, featuring cambered ground-floor openings and a high stepped plinth. The windows are casements with coupled square-leaded lights on the first floor. A six-panelled door is set within a wood-boarded porch that has a gabled tile roof.
Local climate
Heron Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2003
- 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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