The Cottage, Corner Cottage, Park View Cottage, in Orchard, Longwood is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1983. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage, Corner Cottage, Park View Cottage, in Orchard, Longwood
- WRENN ID
- western-pier-honey
- 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
- Cottages
- Address
- The Cottage, Corner Cottage, Park View Cottage, in Orchard, Longwood, Owslebury, Winchester, SO21 1LB
- OS grid reference
- SU 541 247
- Coordinates
- 51.01998, -1.22929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage, Corner Cottage, and Park View Cottage, located in Orchard, Longwood, is an L-shaped block of two pairs of cottages connected by a low service wing. Built around 1880 by G. Devey and altered around 1900, the structure is made of brick and features an old plain tile roof.
The front range consists of two cottages, with a range of service rooms at right angles on the left end. The left cottage has a door to its entrance, while the end of the range has been converted into two dwellings. The front cottages are one and a half storeys high and have four bays. The entrance door is located to the left of the center, accompanied by a casement window, and there are three four-light casements. Above, there are four, three, and four-light casements set in wide hipped dormers. The roof is half-hipped to the right, featuring stacks in front of the ridge on the right and between the left bays.
The service range is a single storey with three bays. It has doors at each end and on each side of the center, with two two-light casements on the left and a four-light casement on the right. The other cottage is also one and a half storeys high and has three bays. It features a central door with a single casement on either side, a two-light casement to the left, and a four-light casement to the right. There are two four-light casements with heads in wide hipped dormers on either side of a similar two-light corner. The roof is half-hipped to the left, with a stack in front of the ridge to the left of center. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
The Cottage, Corner Cottage, Park View Cottage, in Orchard, Longwood receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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