Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1983. A C17 Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Church Cottage

WRENN ID
spare-gallery-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Church Cottage, Itchen Stoke and Ovington, Winchester, SO24 0RB
OS grid reference
SU 560 315
Coordinates
51.08082, -1.20099
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Cottage is a cottage built in the 17th and 18th centuries. It features a timber-frame structure with colour washed brick infill and a roof made of old plain and fishscale tiles. The original building consists of three bays from the 17th century, with two additional bays from the 18th century added to the right. There is a large 18th-century gable stack with bread ovens located at the left end. The cottage is one and a half storeys high and has four bays in total, with a door at the left end of the 17th-century section. The windows are mostly from the 20th century, except for the three-light casements in the end bays, which date to the 19th century. Above, there are three irregular 19th-century gabled dormers with bargeboards and clay finials. The roof has been raised and features an 18th-century stack to the right of the centre 17th-century bay, a large stack at the left end, and a stack between the 18th-century bays.

Local climate

Church Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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