Test View Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. House.

Test View Cottage

WRENN ID
sheer-steeple-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Test Valley
Constituency
Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 March 1984
Type
House
Address
Test View Cottage, Longparish
OS grid reference
SU 420 435
Coordinates
51.18971, -1.39954
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Test View Cottage is an early 18th-century building that was originally two houses but is now one. It features brick walls with horizontal bands of flint and has cambered openings on the ground floor. The roof is thatched and has a half-hipped design with eyebrow dormers. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with two windows that are casements, and it includes boarded doors.

Local climate

Test View Cottage 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 lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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