Barn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1972. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.

Barn Cottage

WRENN ID
graven-rubble-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
New Forest
Constituency
New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 July 1972
Type
Cottage
Address
Barn Cottage, Hordle Lane, SO41 0LF
OS grid reference
SZ 269 935
Coordinates
50.74102, -1.61974
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Barn Cottage is a late medieval building located on Hordle Lane in Downton. It is timber framed with red brick infill and features a thatched roof, rising to one and a half storeys. The cottage has tipper windows with late 19th-century glazing, while the lower windows are early 19th-century casements with glazing bars. Barn Cottage is part of a group of buildings of local interest, which includes the Royal Gate Public House, the Forge, and Jacks Cottage on Lymington Road.

Local climate

Barn Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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