Shepherds Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Cottage.
Shepherds Cottages
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-vestry-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Shepherds Cottages, 8 and 9, Long Parish Road, Wherwell
- OS grid reference
- SU 393 412
- Coordinates
- 51.16943, -1.43886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 8 and 9 Shepherds Cottages are a pair of cottages located in a long block, dating from the late 18th century. They feature plaster walls and a thatched roof. The cottages are one storey with an attic and have four windows. The roof is half-hipped at the west end and hipped at the east, where it extends to a lower level above an outshot. The windows are casements, and there is one small rectangular bay at the west end, topped with a hipped tile roof. The doorways are plain.
Local climate
Shepherds Cottages receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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