Polar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1974. Cottage.
Polar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- steep-floor-moss
- 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
- Polar Cottage, Lower Ashley Road, New Milton
- OS grid reference
- SZ 258 949
- Coordinates
- 50.75389, -1.63443
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Polar Cottage is a Grade II listed building dating from the 18th to 19th century. It consists of two parts: the left side has two bays made of cob, which is rendered and painted, topped with a hipped thatched roof. The right side is an early 19th-century extension, constructed from painted brick and featuring a slate roof. The cottage is 1½ storeys high and has three windows in total, which include both sashes and casements with glazing bars. A gabled porch is present, and there is a 1½ storey outshut on the left side. The overall appearance of the cottage is picturesque.
Local climate
Polar 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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