Glen Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Cottage.
Glen Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-hall-heath
- 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
- Glen Cottage, Minstead
- OS grid reference
- SU 269 126
- Coordinates
- 50.91305, -1.61776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glen Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located in Upper Canterton, Minstead. It is constructed from rendered cob and features a thatched roof with brick stacks and a weatherboarded lean-to. The cottage is two storeys high and has two bays, with the lean-to situated at one end. The front of the building includes a central gabled weatherboarded porch, and on each side of both floors, there are two-light casement windows. The end stacks are prominent, and the lean-to is located on the right-hand side. This cottage is an example of an unaltered forest cottage.
Local climate
Glen Cottage 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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