Bees Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1986. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Bees Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tangled-chapel-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bees Cottage, Steep, East Hampshire, GU32 1AB
- OS grid reference
- SU 738 263
- Coordinates
- 51.03173, -0.94774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bees Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that underwent early 20th-century restoration. The north elevation features an exposed timber frame, with the upper panels plastered and the lower sections filled with coursed malmstone. The other walls are made of malmstone with brick dressings, while the upper parts of the south and east walls are tile-hung. The cottage has a hipped tile roof and a shafted stack. It is a lobby-entrance house with two storeys and irregular window arrangements, featuring casements. The east end was altered around 1900, adding a projected flat-roofed half-dormer and a plain doorway. This building was previously used as a garden store and is located 100 metres east of Old Ashford Manor.
Local climate
Bees Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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