Kicking Donkey is a Grade II listed building in the Bracknell Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 2002. House. 1 related planning application.
Kicking Donkey
- WRENN ID
- silent-newel-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bracknell Forest
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 2002
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kicking Donkey, Wicks Green, Binfield, RG42 5PD
- OS grid reference
- SU 839 714
- Coordinates
- 51.43567, -0.79385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kicking Donkey is a house dating from around 1700, with alterations made in the 19th century. The building features a combination of part timber frame with brick infill and part brick constructed in Flemish bond, topped with an old tile gabled roof.
The house has a rectangular, two-cell plan with a pent roof over a rear outshut. It stands two storeys high and has two gable projecting chimneys with large weathered bases and corniced tops; the chimney on the right includes a tall clay pot. The exterior showcases 19th-century casement windows. The entrance is on the south front, which has a dentilled brick cornice and is arranged in three bays. On the first floor, there are two three-light casement windows, while the ground floor features two two-light casement windows with large rectangular panes, set beneath cambered-arched brick heads. To the right of centre, there is an early 20th-century partly glazed door in a plain wooden frame, topped with a plain flat hood.
Inside, the house has a queen post roof with clasped purlins and two chamfered beams on the ground floor, which have lamb's tongue stops.
Local climate
Kicking Donkey sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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