The Hollow is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 2005. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Hollow
- WRENN ID
- gentle-terrace-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 2005
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Hollow, Brook Hill, Boldre, SO41 5RQ
- OS grid reference
- SZ 355 976
- Coordinates
- 50.77698, -1.49673
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hollow is a cottage located in Boldre, likely built in the 18th century. It was refenestrated in the 19th century and restored in the 20th century. The cottage is made of rendered cob and features a thatched roof. The roof is gabled on the east side and hipped on the west, with a brick chimney stack at the eastern end. It has one storey and attics, with an irregular arrangement of 19th-century casement windows.
The south entrance front includes an eyebrow dormer, a single 19th-century casement window, and a triangular buttress at the southeast corner. There is a central 20th-century timber-framed porch with brick infill and a plank door. The west elevation does not have any windows but features a triangular buttress. The rear, or north elevation, has two 19th-century casement windows. To the left of the cottage is a thatched garage of modern construction, which is not considered of special interest.
The Hollow is recognized as a traditional two-bay end chimneystack cottage in the New Forest, notable for its rendered cob construction and thatched roof.
Local climate
The Hollow receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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