Drovers House is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1957. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.
Drovers House
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-finial-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1957
- Type
- House
- Address
- Drovers House, Houghton Road, Longstock, SO20 6LE
- OS grid reference
- SU 351 351
- Coordinates
- 51.11418, -1.4986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drovers House is a house that was formerly a public house, dating from the 17th century but encased in the 18th century. It has a timber-frame core that is encased in brick, with bands and squares of flint, and features a thatched roof. The building has three bays and is one and a half stories tall. There is a planked door to the right of the center, an 18th-century Flight leaded casement window in the center, and a 19th-century two-light casement window in the left bay. Above the center, there is an 18th-century three-light leaded casement window in an eyebrow dormer, a 19th-century two-light casement window in an eyebrow dormer in the left bay, and two two-light casements in eyebrow dormers in the right bay. The roof is half-hipped and connects to a later cottage on the right, with a stack located immediately to the right of the door and another at the left end of the ridge. A restored inscription on the front wall reads 'DROVERS HOUSE' and includes a Welsh phrase that translates to 'GWAIR-TYMHERUS-PORFA-FLASUS-CWRW-DA-A-GWAL-CYCURUS,' which is a remnant from the era of Welsh drovers.
Local climate
Drovers House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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