Bailliff's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Bailliff's Cottage

WRENN ID
kindled-cinder-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Reading
Constituency
Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1978
Type
Cottage
Address
Bailliff's Cottage, Wensley Road, RG1 6DD
OS grid reference
SU 705 719
Coordinates
51.44237, -0.9867
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bailliff's Cottage is an 18th-century building that has been altered since its original construction. It connects to a dovecote and a coach house (listed separately). The cottage is built of red brick, with some blue bricks incorporated, featuring rubbed brick flat arches. It has a tiled roof. It is two storeys high and has an irregular arrangement of windows, which are glazing bar sash windows with keystones. A band runs over the ground floor of the right-hand bays, continuing from the coach house. The description indicates that the cottage originally appears to have been constructed of silver-grey bricks with red brick dressings. The interior has been altered.

Local climate

Bailliff's 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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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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