Benchmark Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.

Benchmark Cottage

WRENN ID
solitary-keep-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Test Valley
Constituency
North West Hampshire MP: Kit Malthouse (Con)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Benchmark Cottage, Little Hatherden, Tangley, SP11 0HY
OS grid reference
SU 349 506
Coordinates
51.25359, -1.50013
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Benchmark Cottage is a house. The core of the building is timber-framed and dates to an earlier period, with significant extensions and recladding occurring around 1800. A further extension was added in the 20th century. The construction is flint and thatch. The house is largely single-storey and attic, though partially two-storied, with an irregular arrangement of windows. The roof has a ridge that lowers toward the east, with hips at each end, and includes one eyebrow dormer. The flint walls incorporate brick quoins and cambered arches, with some banding. Alterations and 20th-century brickwork are visible on the east side. The windows are casements. The doorways are plain. At the west end, a wide stack has been added, featuring flint-panelled walls and a brickwork upper portion. A stone plaque is inscribed "1 8 M B 0 0", and the plinth features a benchmark.

Local climate

Benchmark Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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