The Hour Glass is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1987. Cottage, restaurant.
The Hour Glass
- WRENN ID
- tangled-forge-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1987
- Type
- Cottage, restaurant
- Address
- The Hour Glass, A338, Fordingbridge
- OS grid reference
- SU 151 155
- Coordinates
- 50.93894, -1.78509
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hour Glass is a cottage that has been converted into a restaurant. It dates back to the 16th century and was altered in the 18th century. The building features a timber frame with brick infill, including some herringbone patterns, and has a weatherboarded store with a thatched roof. It is one and a half storeys tall and consists of two bays with a central passage and smoke bay, with an additional storey added to one end. The front of the building has a brick and rubble plinth. In the small central bay, there is a small two-light casement window in a blocked door. To the left, there is a three-light casement window, and to the right, a two-light casement window, both of which are topped by a three-light eyebrow dormer. There is also a two-light casement window in the store on the right side. The roof is hipped, and there is a ridge stack located above the central bay.
Local climate
The Hour Glass receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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