Minors Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1987. A C18 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Minors Cottage
- WRENN ID
- moated-sill-flax
- 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
- Address
- Minors Cottage, Whitsbury, SP6 3QB
- OS grid reference
- SU 127 191
- Coordinates
- 50.97128, -1.82032
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Minors Cottage is an 18th-century cottage, altered in the 19th century. It is constructed of brick, with a rendered front, and has an old plain tile roof. The cottage is set end-on to the road and is two storeys high with three bays. The front, facing the garden, features a plank door beneath a flat hood in the central bay, with a 2-light casement window beside and within each end bay, all under a cambered head. The first floor has a raised band and three 2-light casement windows. The roof is half-hipped, with a ridge stack positioned above the front door.
Local climate
Minors 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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