The Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Homestead
- WRENN ID
- seventh-chimney-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Homestead, Beacon Hill Lane, Exton, Winchester, SO32 3LT
- OS grid reference
- SU 611 208
- Coordinates
- 50.98359, -1.1299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Homestead is a cottage dating from the 18th century, featuring a timber frame with a 19th-century outshot. The walls display an exposed frame with painted brick infill, a boarded outshot, and a tile-hung upper part on the south wall. The roof is thatched and hipped at the south end, with a separate hipped roof over the outshot. It includes an eyebrow dormer and a gabled dormer with a tiled roof, cheeks, and aprons. The building has one storey and an attic, with irregularly placed windows that are casements. There is a plain doorway situated in a small gabled wooden porch.
Local climate
The Homestead receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- 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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