The Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Bracknell Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1972. House.
The Cottages
- WRENN ID
- high-truss-dock
- 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
- The Cottages, 1 and 2, Forest Road, Winkfield
- OS grid reference
- SU 904 710
- Coordinates
- 51.43091, -0.70012
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottages is a house located on Forest Road in Winkfield, dating from the mid-16th century and altered and extended in the 18th and 20th centuries. The building features a combination of part timber frame with brick infill and part red brick in Flemish bond, topped with an old tile gabled roof of varying heights.
The structure has a rectangular plan consisting of three framed bays, with extensions on both the east and west sides. It is composed of one and two storeys and has three chimneys, one of which has a clay pot. The east extension has a brick dentil eaves cornice. The entrance front, facing south, is irregular; it includes a single-storey, two-bay extension on the left and a two-storey, single-bay extension on the right. The central section features timber framing, with the ground floor displaying a two-light, three-light, and four-light window, along with two plain wooden doors situated between them. The left door is topped with a small part-tiled canopy, while the right door has a small gabled porch supported by wooden posts. On the first floor, there are a two-light window and two three-light windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Cottages 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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