The Old Tea House is a Grade II listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1967. Tea house. 1 related planning application.
The Old Tea House
- WRENN ID
- dusk-plinth-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Fareham and Waterlooville MP: Suella Braverman (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1967
- Type
- Tea house
- Address
- The Old Tea House, High Street, Wickham and Knowle, PO17 5JT
- OS grid reference
- SU 572 115
- Coordinates
- 50.90026, -1.18701
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Tea House is a late 18th-century building located on Wickham High Street. It is L-shaped and likely originated as two separate houses, one facing the Square and the other the High Street. Currently, it functions primarily as a ground-floor café, with part of it serving as a shop.
The exterior features painted brickwork in Flemish bond, with a plinth, a first-floor band, and rubbed flat arches adorned with decorative Coade-style keys. The roof is tiled, with brick dentil eaves on the side facing the Square and coved plaster eaves on the High Street side.
The symmetrical southeast front elevation is two storeys high with an attic and has three windows, two of which are blank. The windows are sashes set in exposed frames. The entrance features a wood Doric doorcase with an open pediment, a dentilled cornice, pilasters, and an arched opening with a small key. Above the entrance is a Gothic fanlight and a four-panelled door that is not in use, all accessed by stone steps.
The southwest elevation is also symmetrical, with two windows on the two-storey structure. The east side has a gable that is two storeys high with an attic and one window, marking the end of the High Street facade. The building contains 18th-century and Victorian sashes, along with a ground-floor shopfront that has a central doorway flanked by panelled pilasters and the remnants of a fanlight.
Local climate
The Old Tea House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 2025
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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