Merrydown is a Grade II listed building in the Bracknell Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.
Merrydown
- WRENN ID
- mired-turret-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bracknell Forest
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Merrydown, Winkfield Street, SL4 4SW
- OS grid reference
- SU 900 727
- Coordinates
- 51.44635, -0.70576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merrydown is a house located on Winkfield Street, originally known as The District Nurses Cottage and other cottages. It dates from the late 16th century, with the front being rebuilt in the late 18th century and altered in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame encased in brick, with some of the frame still visible on the sides, and has an old tile hipped roof.
The house has a rectangular plan with extensions at the rear and stands two storeys tall. It has one off-centre chimney with pots and a very large offset chimney made of narrow bricks that connects to a roof extension on the left. This chimney has two stacks with clay pots set diagonally on the base. The windows are 20th-century leaded casements, with an irregular arrangement on the entrance front, which faces west. The first floor has six 2-light windows, while the ground floor features a mix of 3:2:3:2-light windows with segmental arched heads. There are French casement doors located between the first and second windows. The entrance is now found in a small 20th-century lean-to extension that is set back behind the chimney on the left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Merrydown 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 79% 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 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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