Heather Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1987. Cottage.
Heather Cottage
- WRENN ID
- white-corridor-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Heather Cottage, Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley
- OS grid reference
- SU 160 080
- Coordinates
- 50.87194, -1.77303
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Heather Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has been altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill and a thatched roof. The building is 1½ storeys high and has three bays, with a low 20th-century addition at one end. The front of the cottage has a rounded hood on posts to the left of the center, above a plank door with an inserted light. Each bay contains a three-light leaded casement window, and there is a three-light leaded dormer above. The roof is half-hipped, and there are ridge stacks located between the bays.
Local climate
Heather Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 1 transaction since 2007
- No related consent applications matched
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