The Beeches is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1983. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
The Beeches
- WRENN ID
- idle-brick-heron
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- The Beeches, Owslebury, Winchester, SO21 1LD
- OS grid reference
- SU 535 248
- Coordinates
- 51.02054, -1.23825
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beeches is an agent's house that has been converted into a tied cottage. It was built in 1880 by G. Devey for Lord Northesk, as indicated by the inscription 'GJN 1880' on a tablet. The building features a ground floor made of flint with brick dressings, while the first floor is timber-framed with plaster infill, topped by a plain tile roof. It is a two-span structure with three bays on each side, and it stands at one and a half storeys.
The front has a central 19th-century four-panel door that is sheltered by a bracketed pent-roofed porch. On either side of the door are three-light casement windows with small top lights, set in segmental-headed openings with blue bricks forming the arches. The right bay slightly projects with a gable, which contains a two-light casement window and the tablet in the bottom left corner. Above the door, there is a narrow two-light casement window in a gabled dormer, and to the left, a two-light casement window with a head in a gabled eyebrow dormer. All gables are adorned with curling bargeboards and finials. The building also features symmetrical two-flue stacks on the gables of each span.
Local climate
The Beeches 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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