Yardley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Cottage.
Yardley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-transept-elder
- 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
- Address
- Yardley Cottage, Lower Armour Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 669 742
- Coordinates
- 51.46354, -1.03804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yardley Cottage is an early to mid-18th century cottage that has been altered. It stands two storeys tall and is constructed of stucco with a brick block cornice and an old tile roof. The cottage features one range of 20th-century casement windows and a porch on the right-hand side. At the rear, there is a catslide roof. The gable end faces the road and includes an external chimney. This building is noted as a surviving example of the former hamlet of Armour-Tilehurst.
Local climate
Yardley 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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