Hunters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. Cottage. 10 related planning applications.
Hunters Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-pier-starling
- 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
- Hunters Cottage, Houghton, SO20 6LW
- OS grid reference
- SU 342 322
- Coordinates
- 51.08813, -1.51296
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hunters Cottage is a cottage that dates back to the 16th century, with extensions from the 18th century. It features a timber-frame structure with colourwashed brick infill and thatched roofing. The cottage is one and a half storeys tall and consists of three bays, with the left bay being from the 18th century. There is a 20th-century planked door located at the left end of the centre bay. The right and centre bays have a three-light casement window, while the right bay has a two-light casement window and the left bay features a three-light casement window with a segmental head. Above the left and centre bays, there is a two-light casement window. The roof is hipped to the right and half-hipped to the left, and there is a large chimney stack at the left end of the older part of the cottage.
Local climate
Hunters Cottage 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 — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- 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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