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

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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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