Sweet Briar 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.

Sweet Briar Cottages

WRENN ID
half-chapel-harvest
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
Sweet Briar Cottages, Rowhay Lane, Upham, Winchester
OS grid reference
SU 525 206
Coordinates
50.983, -1.2529
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sweet Briar Cottages is a pair of cottages dating from the 17th and 19th centuries. The cottages are constructed from reused squared stone arranged in random chequerwork, with knapped flint and brick dressings from the 17th and 18th centuries. The building has a slate roof and is 1½ storeys tall, featuring three bays, with a lower two-storey bay added on the left in the 19th century.

The end bays have 20th-century doors and 20th-century two-light casements, all set in their original openings. The centre bay contains a 20th-century three-light casement also in its original opening. Above the centre and left bays are 20th-century two-light casements with heads in sloping dormers, while the right bay features an 18th-century two-light casement. The left bay is made of flint with brick dressings and has a two-light casement with a segmental head, along with a smaller two-light casement above it. The roof is steeply pitched, hipped on the right and half-hipped on the left, with stacks at either end of the ridge. The lower 19th-century bay has a half-hipped roof with a projecting stack on the hip.

Local climate

Sweet Briar Cottages receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% 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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