Fig Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. A C17 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Fig Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-soffit-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fig Tree Cottage, Blendworth, Horndean, East Hampshire, PO8 0AG
- OS grid reference
- SU 717 135
- Coordinates
- 50.91689, -0.98008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fig Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building located in Blendworth, Horndean. Originally two cottages, it dates back to the 17th century and features a timber frame with some minor 20th-century additions. The building has an exposed frame with plaster and painted brick infill, along with a small boarded section and a tile-hung gable on the south side. The roof is thatched, hipped at the north end and half-hipped at the south end. It is two storeys high with irregular window arrangements, featuring casement windows. The doors are boarded and set in plain frames, and there are half-glazed conservatories at the rear.
Local climate
Fig Tree Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 2020
- 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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