Dowse Cottage and Dowse Room is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. Schoolroom and cottage. 7 related planning applications.

Dowse Cottage and Dowse Room

WRENN ID
second-hammer-coral
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
Schoolroom and cottage
Address
Dowse Cottage and Dowse Room, High Street, Broughton, SO20 8AX
OS grid reference
SU 309 328
Coordinates
51.0937, -1.55932
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dowse Cottage and Dowse Room date from 1864, as indicated by a tablet. The building comprises a single-story schoolroom and a two-story, three-bay cottage. The schoolroom is constructed of chequerwork brick and coursed flint, with a plain tile roof. It features a central projecting gabled brick porch with a pointed plank door and dentilled gable. To either side are three-light transomed windows, with cast iron latticed top casements and rubbed brick heads. An iron vent is located in the centre of the roof. The cottage is a two-story, three-bay structure. It has a central six-panel top-lit door, sheltered by an open gabled timber porch. Three-light, segmental-headed casements with cast-iron lattice glazing are present on both floors, with a two-light, similar window above the door. Central and left-end stacks are visible, along with decorated ridge tiles.

Local climate

Dowse Cottage and Dowse Room receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 7 applications
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  • 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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