The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
third-plinth-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 August 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
The Cottage, Itchen Valley, Winchester, SO21 1DD
OS grid reference
SU 532 321
Coordinates
51.0865, -1.24082
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is an early 19th-century brick cottage with a roof of old plain tiles, located in Itchen Valley, Avington. It is a one-and-a-half storey, two-bay building. The front features a top-glazed, planked door in a segmental head on the left side, and two 19th-century three-light casement windows with segmental heads to the left. Two 19th-century gabled dormers with bargeboards are present. The roof is half-hipped to the left, with a stack at the left end. A projection extends to the rear of the building.

Local climate

The 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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