Little Lea Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1957. Cottage.
Little Lea Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-beam-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1957
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Lea Cottage, Basingstoke Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 713 690
- Coordinates
- 51.41607, -0.97572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Lea Cottage is an early 17th-century building located on Basingstoke Road. It is two storeys high, with the ground floor finished in stucco and supported by buttresses. The structure features timber framing with brick nogging, and the southern side is also stuccoed. There is a gable on the left side of the building. The cottage has three ranges of leaded three-light casement windows, with early 19th-century windows on the first floor to the right. An off-centre left projecting lean-to porch adds to its character. The roof is tiled, and there is an external chimney on the right-hand gable end. Inside, the ground floor west room contains an inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
Little Lea Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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