Beam End is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. Cottage.
Beam End
- WRENN ID
- ghost-arch-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Beam End, Houghton
- OS grid reference
- SU 342 323
- Coordinates
- 51.08968, -1.51193
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beam End is a cottage dating from the 17th century, which was encased and extended in the 18th century. It features a timber-frame structure with brick infill at the front and a cob addition. The cottage has a thatched roof and is 1 and a half storeys high, consisting of three bays of timber-frame with an additional cob bay on the right. The front of the cottage includes an 18th-century planked door located to the right of the centre 17th-century bay. The two bays on the right have five-light casements, while to the left of the door there is a three-light casement and a 20th-century two-light window at the left end. Above the door, on each side, there are tall eyebrow dormers featuring 20th-century steel windows. The roof is half-hipped, with a ridge piece and a stack positioned above the door and the right end of the older part of the building.
Local climate
Beam End 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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