Down Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1983. Cottage.
Down Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-newel-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Down Cottage, Owslebury, Winchester
- OS grid reference
- SU 525 229
- Coordinates
- 51.00394, -1.25202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Down Cottage is a 17th-century cottage constructed with a timber frame and plaster infill, which is encased in brick and rendered at the front. The roof is thatched. The building has two bays and two stories. A central 18th-century planked door is set within an open gabled tiled porch. On either side of the door, there are two 19th-century two-light casement windows. Above the left side, there is an 18th-century three-light casement window. The roof is hipped to the right and features a decorated ridge piece. The left end of the cottage has an external 18th-century stack and a bread oven built onto the gable end. At the rear, the roof has an outshot.
Local climate
Down Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
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