The Telegraph House is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. House.
The Telegraph House
- WRENN ID
- strange-wicket-frost
- 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
- House
- Address
- The Telegraph House, Lockerley
- OS grid reference
- SU 282 248
- Coordinates
- 51.02224, -1.59912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Telegraph House is an early 19th-century telegraph house that has been converted into a private residence. It features a stuccoed brick exterior and consists of a single bay three-storey tower flanked by single-storey bays on each side, all set on a basement. The front of the building has a porch at the ground floor, which is raised on a plinth, and the entrance door is located on the side, accessed by steps. Each side of the porch and on every floor of the tower has a 19th-century cross-window. The building has coping along the parapet. While the lower rooms have been restored, the top storey remains unaltered, including a steep flight of stairs leading up to it and a ladder on the wall that provides access to the roof. This structure is part of the Plymouth extension of the telegraph.
Local climate
The Telegraph House 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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