Racedown Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1984. Cottage.
Racedown Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-pier-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Racedown Cottage, Thruxton
- OS grid reference
- SU 265 445
- Coordinates
- 51.19934, -1.62194
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Racedown Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage with rendered walls and a thatched roof. It features a symmetrical front facing south, consisting of two storeys and three windows, along with a west side outshot. The roof is hipped, with a catslide extending to part of the rear and low eaves above the set-back outshot. Most of the walls are rendered over cob, but the east side of the front is made of flint with brick quoins, a cambered arch, and painted bands. The cottage has casements, including one old casement in the east gable. There is a wooden porch with a cusped bargeboard on the gable, a patterned head above the oval-arched doorway, and vertical boarding on the sides.
Local climate
Racedown 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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