Woodlands Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1976. Cottage.
Woodlands Cottage
- WRENN ID
- riven-tin-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Woodlands Cottage, Lower Henley Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 725 749
- Coordinates
- 51.46898, -0.9563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodlands Cottage is a 17th-century building that has been altered, with part of the front rebuilt using "thermalite" (concrete) and grooved cement to imitate timber framing. Some original timber elements are still visible in the rendering. The cottage has one and a half storeys and features a half-hipped tiled roof with two ridge chimneys. There are three modern gabled dormers and four irregularly placed windows on the ground floor, which are modern casements. The central entrance has a modern door flanked by side-lights. To the left, there is a single-storey extension, and at the rear, there is an extremely low catslide roof. Timber framing can be seen in the gable end.
Local climate
Woodlands 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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