Empress Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Rushmoor local planning authority area, England. Cottages.
Empress Cottages
- WRENN ID
- tall-cloister-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rushmoor
- Constituency
- Aldershot MP: Alex Baker (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Empress Cottages, 2, Highgate Lane
- OS grid reference
- SU 876 564
- Coordinates
- 51.30061, -0.74389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Empress Cottages, located on Ship Lane in Farnborough, were built around 1840 and are designed in the Gothic Revival style with a strong Jacobean influence. The building consists of an irregular block that is two storeys tall, featuring some ground floor outshots. It has a steep red tile roof adorned with multiple gables and prominent chimney stacks with raking offsets.
The exterior is constructed from red brick in Monk bond above a projecting band at the first floor, with Flemish bond below. The windows are casements, some of which include mullions and transoms, set in chamfered reveals with tile cills; many retain their original diamond leaded lights. The ground floor is enhanced by open porches, an elaborate hood over one window, and bays that have tiled roofing. The cottages occupy a prominent corner site at the junction with Highgate Lane.
Local climate
Empress Cottages receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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