The Anchorage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. A C17 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Anchorage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-banister-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Anchorage, Houghton, SO20 6LW
- OS grid reference
- SU 341 321
- Coordinates
- 51.08765, -1.5131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Anchorage is a Grade II listed cottage, originally built as a pair in the 17th century and later encased and extended in the 18th century. It features a timber-frame core with colourwashed brick and a thatched roof. The building is 1.5 storeys high and has five bays, with doors located one bay in from each end. The door at the road end is an 18th-century planked design set in a raised brick panel with a segmental head, while the far door is planked and situated under a 20th-century open gabled porch. The other bays contain 2-light segmental headed casements, with an additional 2-light casement above all but the bay with the road end door. The roof is half-hipped and has a large chimney stack positioned above the road end door and another at the far end.
Local climate
The Anchorage 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 greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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