Heather Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1983. A C17 Cottage.
Heather Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-cellar-burdock
- 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
- Heather Cottage, Tichborne, Winchester
- OS grid reference
- SU 572 306
- Coordinates
- 51.07261, -1.18425
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Heather Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It features an exposed timber frame with brick infilling and some rebuilding on the ground floor, topped with a thatched roof. The building consists of three small bays and is two storeys high. There is a door at the inner end of the right bay, which has a baffle entry and is sheltered by a tiled pent roof open timber porch. The cottage has 19th-century two and three-light casement windows. In the centre, there is a 20th-century three-light casement on the first floor, which has a slight eyebrow in the eaves. The roof is half-hipped and includes a decorated ridge piece, along with an 18th-century two-flued ridge stack positioned to the right of the centre and a 19th-century free-standing stack on the hip.
Local climate
Heather 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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