Windmill Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1987. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.

Windmill Cottages

WRENN ID
shadowed-passage-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Test Valley
Constituency
North West Hampshire MP: Kit Malthouse (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 February 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Windmill Cottages, 1, Windmill Lane, Hurstbourne Tarrant, SP11 0BP
OS grid reference
SU 374 535
Coordinates
51.28032, -1.46423
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Windmill Cottages is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with alterations and additions from the 19th century. It is constructed of flint with brick quoining and features a long-straw thatched roof with two eyebrow dormers at the front. There is a brick stack at the left-hand gable end. The cottage is single storey with an attic and has single storey brick lean-to additions against the left-hand gable end wall and at the rear.

The building has three bays with an entrance located to the right of the centre on the front. An early 20th-century brick gabled porch with a panelled door has been built in front of the doorway, which has a vertical plank door. To the left of the porch is a 19th-century four-light casement window, and to the right is a two-light casement window, both set in segmental brick arched openings. The dormers feature two-light casements with sidelights, and all casements have horizontal glazing bars.

Inside, there is a large inglenook fireplace and exposed stop-chamfered joists. The interior also includes early 18th-century doors and a queen strut roof.

Local climate

Windmill Cottages 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 lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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