Rivermead is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1951. House. 4 related planning applications.
Rivermead
- WRENN ID
- calm-lancet-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rivermead, 39, the Mead, Romsey, SO51 8HY
- OS grid reference
- SU 348 211
- Coordinates
- 50.98834, -1.50459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rivermead, also known as Abbey Mills, is an early 19th-century house. It is two storeys high and built of colourwashed stucco. The house has a moulded string course above the ground-floor windows, a flat bracketed eaves cornice, and a hipped slate roof. The east and west fronts have a slight central projection.
The east front has five windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, each with four-pane sash windows in reveals. The central entrance features a pair of six-panel double doors recessed within a panelled arched surround, topped with a semi-circular fanlight, now with modern glazing within a reeded frame. The west front mirrors the window arrangement, but the central first-floor window opens onto a small balcony with cast iron railings via a modern French casement window. Ground-floor windows on the west front are also modern French casements.
On the north side, a flight of six modern steps, flanked by a closed stucco balustrade, leads to a doorway with a six-panelled door, again in panelled reveals, and a rectangular fanlight with a rectangular pattern of glazing. The upper two panels of the door have been cut away and glazed.
Local climate
Rivermead receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 10 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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