Graces Cottage 20 Metres North of Downlands is a Grade II listed building in the East Hampshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1986. A C16 Service house. 1 related planning application.

Graces Cottage 20 Metres North of Downlands

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hampshire
Constituency
Farnham and Bordon MP: Gregory Stafford (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1986
Type
Service house
Address
Graces Cottage 20 Metres North of Downlands, GU30 7QZ
OS grid reference
SU 851 336
Coordinates
51.09588, -0.78602
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Graces Cottage, located 20 metres north of Downlands, is a service house dating from the 16th century, with alterations from the early and late 19th centuries. The building features a mix of wall materials; the east front is constructed of Victorian red brick in English bond, with cambered openings, while the south side is made of carstone with brick dressings. The south wall has carstone with brick quoins, the west side is primarily stone but includes exposed timber framing in the upper section, and the north end wall also has exposed framing above a stone wall. The roof is tiled, hipped and half-hipped, with two small gabled half-dormers. The cottage is a timber-framed smoke-bay house that has been reclad at different times and restored. It has one and a half storeys with irregular window arrangements and features 20th-century casements and three boarded doors.

Local climate

Graces Cottage 20 Metres North of Downlands 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 greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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