Slab Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Slab Cottage

WRENN ID
gaunt-quartz-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Test Valley
Constituency
Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Slab Cottage, Slab Lane, Wellow, SO51 6RL
OS grid reference
SU 290 194
Coordinates
50.97389, -1.58693
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Slab Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage located in Wellow on Slab Lane. It is constructed of painted brick and features a thatched roof. The building is two stories high and has two bays, with a lean-to on the left end. The entrance is a central door with six vertical panels arranged three above three, and it is sheltered by a yew bush porch that has a rectangular shape and a pointed archway, reaching up to the eaves. On either side of the door are two-light camber-head casement windows, and there are also two-light eyebrow dormers in the roof. The roof is finished with end stacks, and there is a door in the 19th-century lean-to that has a slate roof.

Local climate

Slab 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
  • 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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