Smugglers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1974. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Smugglers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-column-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Smugglers Cottage, Barton Common Lane, New Milton, BH25 5PS
- OS grid reference
- SZ 248 936
- Coordinates
- 50.74155, -1.64972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smugglers Cottage is an 18th century building located on the north side of Barton Common Lane in Barton on Sea. It features a facade made of minted brick and is topped with a thatched roof. The cottage is 1½ storeys high and has two windows, which include early 19th century casements with glazing bars, although there are some modern reproduction windows present. The entrance is marked by a central porch.
Local climate
Smugglers 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 — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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