Sweetbriar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. Cottage.
Sweetbriar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-bailey-jay
- 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
- Sweetbriar Cottage, Gardiners Lane, Melchet Park and Plaitford
- OS grid reference
- SU 286 209
- Coordinates
- 50.98688, -1.59382
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sweetbriar Cottage is a 16th-century cottage that was altered in the 18th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill and a thatched roof. The cottage is one and a half storeys tall and has three bays. There is a ledged plank door with an open gabled timber and tile porch located to the left of the centre bay. The cottage has a three-light casement window in the centre and right bays, and a two-light casement window in the left bay. Above the centre and left bays, there is a two-light casement window in an eyebrow dormer. The roof is half-hipped, with a ridge piece and a stack located immediately to the left of the door.
Local climate
Sweetbriar 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 greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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