Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Holly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-corridor-pearl
- 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
- Holly Cottage, Gardiners Lane, Melchet Park and Plaitford, SO51 6HH
- OS grid reference
- SU 286 209
- Coordinates
- 50.98768, -1.59306
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Cottage is an 18th-century cottage, possibly with earlier origins, extended in the early 19th century and again in the late 19th century. It is constructed of brick, with a thatched roof. The cottage is one and a half stories, originally two bays wide, with a bay added to the right in the early 19th century and another to the left in the late 19th century. The front of the cottage features a central planked door set within a 19th-century gabled porch with glazed timber and tile detailing. Each bay has two segmental-head casement windows on the ground floor, above which are two-light casement windows. An eyebrow dormer is located above. The roof has a ridge piece and a lower ridge to the added bays, with half-hipped ends. Chimneys are positioned at the right end of the 18th-century section and at the right end. This group value reflects its well-preserved, traditional character.
Local climate
Holly 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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