Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1987. Cottage.
Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-moulding-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Cottage, Hale
- OS grid reference
- SU 198 195
- Coordinates
- 50.97537, -1.71853
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building that incorporates a telegraph house, dating from around 1830 and enlarged in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of brick with a thatched roof. This two-storey, two-bay cottage has a tall and thin profile, featuring a lean-to at one end. The building originally included a single-storey structure on each side of what is now one bay, which was part of the telegraph house. The left-hand added bay has a plank door beneath a timber gabled offset, with a two-light casement window above it and another window in the lean-to. The roof is hipped to the left, and there is a stack on the right-hand side. Old Cottage was one of the telegraph stations on the London to Plymouth line, which was part of the Admiralty communications system between Whitehall and its outstations, but it soon became redundant with the introduction of the electric telegraph.
Local climate
Old Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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