Dean's Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1951. Cottage.

Dean's Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
upper-truss-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Reading
Constituency
Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 November 1951
Type
Cottage
Address
Dean's Farm Cottage, Star Road
OS grid reference
SU 725 743
Coordinates
51.46381, -0.95679
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dean's Farm Cottage is a building that likely dates from the mid-18th century and features a front that belongs to a 17th-century structure. It is two storeys high and constructed of red brick, with a random flint band over the ground floor. The cottage has two ranges of windows, with three-light casements on the first floor that have wooden lintels, and two-light windows on the ground floor with glazing bars. There is a panel at the centre of the first floor. The central door is sheltered by an early 19th-century hipped gable wood trellis porch. Below the eaves, there is a brick block cornice. The roof is half-hipped and tiled, featuring an off-ridge cruciform chimney at the centre front, while the rear has a long catslide roof. Dean's Farm Cottage and Dean's Farm are connected to Star Road by a raised flint causeway.

Local climate

Dean's Farm 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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