Old Cobley is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Cottage.
Old Cobley
- WRENN ID
- deep-obsidian-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Cobley, Minstead
- OS grid reference
- SU 284 086
- Coordinates
- 50.8765, -1.59632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Cobley is a cottage dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill and a thatched roof. The building is 1½ storeys high and has three bays. The front of the cottage has a plank door on the right-hand side of the centre bay, leading to a baffle entry. Each bay contains a two-light casement window. Above the left-hand and centre bays, there are eyebrow dormers with two lights. The roof is half-hipped on the right-hand side. At the right end, there is a weatherboarded lean-to that is set back.
Local climate
Old Cobley receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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