Acre Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Acre Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dim-basalt-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Acre Cottage, Penton Grafton, SP11 9HN
- OS grid reference
- SU 318 487
- Coordinates
- 51.23693, -1.54499
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Acre Cottage is a house that was originally a pair, and before that, part of a row of four. It dates from the late 18th century and has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The building features flint walls with brick quoins, cambered arches, some decorative bands, and sections of brickwork, along with filled doorways. It has two storeys and four windows, with casement windows throughout. There is a shallow open porch supported by posts, topped with a gabled slate roof, and it has a boarded door.
Local climate
Acre Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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