Shepherds Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1987. Cottage.
Shepherds Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-gutter-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Shepherds Cottage, Shepherds Lane, Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley
- OS grid reference
- SU 127 087
- Coordinates
- 50.87847, -1.82006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shepherds Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century and was extended in the 18th century. It features a timber-frame structure with brick infill and a thatched roof. The building is 1½ storeys high and consists of a 2-bay 17th-century section with an additional bay added to one end. There is a thatched porch on the left-hand end. Each bay has a 2-light casement window, and there is a 2-light eyebrow dormer. The roof is half-hipped, and there are stacks at each end of the original 17th-century building.
Local climate
Shepherds Cottage 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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