Sharpe's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Sharpe's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- roaming-keystone-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sharpe's Cottage, Lower Street, Braishfield, SO51 0PH
- OS grid reference
- SU 365 252
- Coordinates
- 51.02512, -1.48013
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sharpe's Cottage is a 16th-century cottage that was altered in the 18th century. It features a timber-frame structure with wattle and daub and brick infill, topped with a thatched roof. The cottage has two bays with an outshot bay to the right and is one and a half storeys high. There is a planked door to the left of the center. Each bay has a two-light casement window, and there is an 18th-century two-light casement in an eyebrow dormer above. All windows are leaded. The roof includes a ridge stack, is half-hipped to the left, and sweeps down to the right, with the ridge stack positioned above the door.
Local climate
Sharpe's 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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