Sweet Briar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Sweet Briar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-trefoil-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sweet Briar Cottage, 32, Micheldever, SO21 3DU
- OS grid reference
- SU 542 399
- Coordinates
- 51.15595, -1.22616
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sweet Briar Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th century and 20th century. It features a timber-frame structure with plaster infill and a brick wing. The building is L-shaped, with the original 16th-century section and a 20th-century crosswing at the left end. It has two bays and is one and a half storeys tall, with a two-storey crosswing. There are two small three-light leaded mullion windows and one leaded single light window. On the immediate level, there is a three-light leaded mullion window and three small eyebrow dormers with two-light casements. The 20th-century bay includes a tiled, bracketed wooden porch with stable-type doors and a two-light window on each floor. The roof is hipped and features a decorated ridge piece, with a stack located at the left end of the right bay and another at the outside left end of the 16th-century building. To the immediate left of the house, there is a large yew tree.
Local climate
Sweet Briar Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 1998
- 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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