White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- former-remnant-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- White Cottage, 4, Surley Row, RG4 8LY
- OS grid reference
- SU 717 758
- Coordinates
- 51.47725, -0.9682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is an 18th-century building of two storeys and an attic. It has a pink stucco exterior and an old tile roof. The front has four windows on the first floor, which are glazing bar sash windows with shutters, one panel in each. The ground floor has a half-glazed door from the early 19th century. One gable end is tile hung. It is described as picturesque. The building has two dormers in the roof.
Local climate
White 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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