Bishops Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 1990. Cottage.

Bishops Cottage

WRENN ID
salt-ember-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Test Valley
Constituency
Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 May 1990
Type
Cottage
Address
Bishops Cottage, Wynham Lane, Ampfield
OS grid reference
SU 397 233
Coordinates
51.0086, -1.43532
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bishops Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1800. It is constructed of red brick in English bond, mostly painted, and features a thatched roof with a brick chimney. The building is one and a half storeys high and has two bays, with a 20th-century lean-to at the rear.

On the left side of the first bay, there is a board door topped by a segmental header brick arch, set within an early 20th-century open wooden porch that has a boarded roof. The cottage has two-light windows; the ground floor windows have 12-pane metal lights, while the first-floor windows are 12-pane wood casements. The roof is hipped with a central stack.

At the rear, the lean-to includes a board door, metal casements, and a roof made of corrugated asbestos cement sheets. The left side of the cottage has a blocked former doorway, now a window, also featuring a segmental header brick arch.

Inside, the cottage has two rooms divided by a large chimney breast. The ceiling features chamfered cross beams, with one beam having stepped cyma stops. There is a staircase against the rear wall, with a door made of two fielded panels, and an old door leading to a cupboard under the stairs. The roof structure includes collared trusses with pegged joints.

Local climate

Bishops Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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