Grove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Grove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- night-balcony-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Grove Cottage, Surley Row, RG4 8LU
- OS grid reference
- SU 715 760
- Coordinates
- 51.47892, -0.97113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Cottage dates to the 1830s and is a Tudor Gothic cottage with a 'T' shape. It is a two-storey building of painted brick, with a tiled roof and scalloped bargeboards to the gable ends. The south front has four bays, featuring three mullion windows on the first floor and a round-headed lancet window above the porch. The porch has a label mould and a recessed, ogee-headed door with marginal glazing. Later, square bays were added on either side, and a two-storey bay was added to the right gable, along with a crenellated two-storey extension and porch below. A contemporary brick garden wall with a gate to the road is also present. The building was described in 1843 as “a neat red brick building in Elizabethan style.”
Local climate
Grove 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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