Cooper's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1983. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Cooper's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sacred-mantel-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cooper's Farmhouse, Laurences Lane, Thatcham, RG18 3LF
- OS grid reference
- SU 516 684
- Coordinates
- 51.41304, -1.25906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cooper's Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the 17th century, with additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. The building features a brick exterior that encases a timber frame, with some areas of brick nogging. It has a tiled roof that is half hipped to the west and includes two ridge stacks, positioned off centre to the left and right. The farmhouse is two storeys high.
On the south front, there are two framed bays with an 18th-century façade. The ground floor has two windows to the left and three on the first floor, primarily consisting of 20th-century casements. To the right, there are French casements. There are 19th-century additions to both the left and right sides of the building, and a late 18th-century stair tower projects to the rear.
Local climate
Cooper's Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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