The Rock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hampshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1977. Cottage.
The Rock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-mortar-pearl
- 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
- The Rock Cottage, Paper Mill Lane, Alton
- OS grid reference
- SU 722 396
- Coordinates
- 51.15136, -0.9679
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rock Cottage is a 19th-century, single-storey rustic cottage. It has a T-shaped plan and is constructed from rough boulders. The roof is made of slate and features decorated ridge tiles. Most of the windows are lattice style.
Local climate
The Rock Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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