Sawmill 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.
Sawmill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-pier-spring
- 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
- Sawmill Cottage, Itchen Valley, Winchester, SO21 1BZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 543 327
- Coordinates
- 51.09123, -1.22504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sawmill Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into two cottages, dating from the late 18th century. The building is constructed of brick, featuring some blue headers arranged in patterns, and has an old plain tile roof. It is positioned end-on to the road and consists of a three-bay structure, with an early 19th-century two-bay addition at the rear along the roadside, and a lean-to added to the far end, along with a shed at the front of it.
The front of the building is two storeys high and has three bays, with a central 19th-century top that is glazed and has a flat hood. To the left, there is a 19th-century two-light casement window, and to the right, a 20th-century five-light steel casement window, both set within segmental blue brick heads. Above each of the 19th-century two-light casements, there are additional casements on either side of a recessed panel made of blue headers. Each corner of the building features a clasping buttress, including the corner of the addition. The hipped roof has dentilled eaves and is topped with a large ridge stack at the center, as well as another stack on the roadside ridge at the junction between the two sections of the building. The roadside front has 20th-century steel casements fitted into the original openings.
Local climate
Sawmill 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Abbey House
- Yew Tree Cottage
- 127 and 128, Rectory Lane
- Vine Cottage
- Yavington Farm Cottage
- Gates to Lime Avenue 15 M SE of Avington Lodge Opposite Other Gates
- Bridge 25 M N of Avington Lodge
- Gates at W End of Grounds of Avington House 5 M S of Avington Lodge
- Avington Lodge
- 4 Tombchests in St John's Churchyard to 1 W Minchin 1792; 2 E Rogers 1816; 3 A Moody 1811; 4 M Bear 1837