Little Somborne House is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1957. A C18 Country house. 1 related planning application.
Little Somborne House
- WRENN ID
- hushed-pedestal-storm
- 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
- Country house
- Address
- Little Somborne House, SO20 6QT
- OS grid reference
- SU 383 328
- Coordinates
- 51.09407, -1.45413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Somborne House is a small country house dating from the mid-18th century, with an early 19th-century addition on one end and a late 19th-century addition on the other. The building is constructed of brick, which was once colourwashed, and features a slate roof. The central mid-18th century section has five bays and is two stories high, with a flat canted full-height bay on the right. The left side has a high-roofed, two-story, three-bay early 19th-century addition, while the right side features a two-story and attic, two-bay addition.
The central part has five 18-pane sash windows and a 12-pane sash window on the first floor. On the left side, the ground floor has three 15-pane sash windows set in recessed arched panels, with three 9-pane sashes above. The right side has pairs of sash windows on both floors in each bay. There is a wide 4-light hipped dormer above the left bay, and the right bay has a lower roof with eaves above the windows. The central section has a hipped roof to the right with a lead roof over the bay, and there are stacks on the hip and at the front of the ridge to the left. The left side features wide eaves with a roof hipped to the left and a stack behind the ridge, while the right side has a hipped roof with several parts and three stacks. The interior is notable for its fine 18th-century staircase and rooms in the older part of the house.
Local climate
Little Somborne 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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