26, Armour Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Cottage.
26, Armour Hill
- WRENN ID
- dim-nave-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- SU 668 744
- Coordinates
- 51.46498, -1.03959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26 Armour Hill is a 17th-century cottage that has been altered and modernised. It is a one-and-a-half storey building with a thatched roof. The exterior is rendered, likely over a timber frame. To the north, there is a large catslide roof that incorporates a bread oven, along with a two-storey extension on the right. The cottage is accessed from the east through a thatched porch, which has a window above it. This building is noted for being a remnant of the old hamlet of Armour-Tilehurst.
Local climate
26, Armour Hill 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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