Dove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Dove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-render-fen
- 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
- Dove Cottage, Muss Lane, Kings Somborne, SO20 6PE
- OS grid reference
- SU 363 311
- Coordinates
- 51.07829, -1.48267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dove Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with a 20th-century extension. It features a timber-frame structure with wattle and daub infill, while the later addition is made of rendered brick and topped with a thatched roof. The original 17th-century section is a single storey with two bays, and the 20th-century addition is one and a half storeys with three bays. There is a hip-roofed porch from the 20th century with a door located in the right bay of the original section, alongside a two-light casement window. The left bay also has a two-light casement window. In the 20th-century part, each bay contains a two-light casement window, with a similar window in an eyebrow dormer above. The roof has a half-hipped design with a ridge piece, and there is a central stack in the 17th-century section.
Local climate
Dove 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 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- 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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