Primrose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Primrose Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Primrose Cottage, Rockbourne
- OS grid reference
- SU 112 183
- Coordinates
- 50.96435, -1.84065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Primrose Cottage is an 18th-century cottage with a 20th-century addition, located in Rockbourne. The building features a rendered cob and brick construction with a thatched roof. It is one and a half storeys high and consists of two bays in the original part, which has an L-shaped wing added to the end. The front of the cottage includes a plank door with an inserted light beneath the thatch, along with a timber porch. On either side of the door, there are two-light casements, and above them is an eyebrow dormer that contains another two-light casement with sidelights. The right-hand side features the 20th-century addition, which includes a bay with a four-light casement and a wide eyebrow dormer, next to a projecting half-hipped wing. There is a stack located at the left-hand end of the building.
Local climate
Primrose Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 2018
- No related consent applications matched
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