Walnut Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. Cottage. 8 related planning applications.
Walnut Cottage
- WRENN ID
- first-gutter-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Walnut Cottage, Chilworth, SO16 7JP
- OS grid reference
- SU 405 186
- Coordinates
- 50.96619, -1.42364
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Cottage is a 16th-century cottage located in Chilworth Old Village, that has been altered in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed with brick infill, and has been refronted with painted brickwork. The roof is of old plain tiles, with a 20th-century brick and pantile wing. The cottage is 1 1/2 storeys high and has two bays, with a 20th-century wing added to one end. It features plain doorways, irregular casement windows with cambered openings, and a gabled dormer. One end of the roof is half-hipped, the other is hipped. A shafted stack is present.
Local climate
Walnut 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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