Mays Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Mays Cottages

WRENN ID
weathered-obsidian-frost
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
Mays Cottages, Longwood Dean Lane, Cheriton, Winchester, SO21 1JS
OS grid reference
SU 547 240
Coordinates
51.0129, -1.22156
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A row of three cottages dated 1889, designed by G Devey for Lord Northesk. The cottages are constructed of ground floor flint with brick dressings, and timber-frame with plaster infill on the first floor, all beneath a plain tile roof. A projecting right crosswing forms part of the five-window front. The building is one-and-a-half storeys high with a jettied first floor. There are doorways at the right end, between windows to the left of the centre, and on the inner side of the wing. Four three-light casement windows are present, some with leaded glass. Brackets support the jetty at each corner of the front of the wing, set on stone corbels. The wing has a five-light casement, and the gable has a three-light casement. A tablet is positioned above the central window. A gabled two-light casement dormer with a bargeboard sits on the roof, and eyebrow dormers with two-light leaded casements and bargeboards are on either side. Bargeboards are present on the gables. Rebuilt stacks are located to the right of the eyebrow dormers, and larger stacks sit behind the ridge of the gables. Drawings of the building are held in the RIBA Drawings Collection.

Local climate

Mays Cottages 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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