Whitedown Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Hampshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1977. Cottage.

Whitedown Cottages

WRENN ID
dusk-spandrel-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hampshire
Constituency
East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 March 1977
Type
Cottage
Address
Whitedown Cottages, 1-7, Lenten Street, Alton
OS grid reference
SU 712 393
Coordinates
51.149, -0.9826
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Whitedown Cottages, located on Lenten Street, is a row of 19th-century cottages that are two stories high. Each cottage is two bays wide, except for No 1, which has three bays. The individual cottages are distinguished by broad flat pilasters. The building is constructed of colour-washed brick and has a slate roof. Each cottage features a single door beneath a bracketed and tiled hood, which is adorned with decorative ridge tiles. All the windows are sash windows, with those on the first floor positioned above those on the ground floor. No 1 has a central door flanked by a window on each side, with two windows on the first floor. Cottages Nos 2 to 7 follow a rhythmic pattern on the ground floor of window, door; door, window; window, door; door, window, and so on.

Local climate

Whitedown Cottages 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 53% 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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