The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1957. A C17 Cottage.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-remnant-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1957
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Lower Henley Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 724 749
- Coordinates
- 51.46867, -0.95807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a mid to late 17th century building located on Lower Henley Road. It is two storeys high and features a timber frame with plastered infill, consisting of seven panels of timber framing. The cottage has two ranges of modern windows and a half-hipped roof covered with old tiles. There are single storey extensions flanking the building, and a porch is situated to the right. At the rear, there is a catslide roof, and a gable end chimney is positioned to the right.
Local climate
The Old Cottage 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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