The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

The Old Cottage

WRENN ID
sombre-crypt-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
The Old Cottage, Bishops Waltham, Winchester
OS grid reference
SU 575 181
Coordinates
50.96012, -1.18167
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with 18th-century extensions and recladding. It features walls of painted brickwork, with exposed timber framing in the central upper part. The roof is tiled, hipped at the west end and half-hipped at the east. The north front has two storeys and two windows, with casements on the ground floor that have mid-19th-century cast-iron frames. There is a boarded door in a plain frame, topped with a tiled hood.

Local climate

The Old Cottage 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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