Bramble Cottage Providence Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. A Post-medieval Cottage.

Bramble Cottage Providence Cottage

WRENN ID
muted-eave-river
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
Period
Post-medieval
Address
Bramble Cottage Providence Cottage, Kings Somborne
OS grid reference
SU 397 324
Coordinates
51.08981, -1.43449
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Providence Cottage and Bramble Cottage are a pair of cottages, originally a single house, dating from the 15th century and altered in the 18th and 20th centuries. The building features a cruck timber-frame structure with colourwashed brick infill and additions, topped with a shingle roof. It consists of a three-bay 16th-century section, with a half-bay added to the left and one and a half bays added to the right in the 20th century. The 16th-century part is set on a plinth. There is a 20th-century door located in the left of the centre 16th-century bay and in the centre of the right 16th-century bay. Between these, there are two 19th-century two-light casement windows. The other bays feature 20th-century two-light casement windows. The roof is hipped with steep hips and includes four tall 20th-century two-light hipped dormers.

Local climate

Bramble Cottage Providence Cottage 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 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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