Elizabeth Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Elizabeth Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Constituency
Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Elizabeth Cottage, London Road, Newbury, RG14 1JL
OS grid reference
SU 471 675
Coordinates
51.40546, -1.32369
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Elizabeth Cottage is a mid-19th century cottage with distinctive features, accessed through a coach passage between Nos 13 and 15 London Road. The cottage is two-and-a-half storeys tall, constructed of rendered brick, and topped with a concrete tile roof. It features an elaborated Dutch gable with a small attic window and one window on each floor. To the right, there is a set-back single-storey porch.

Inside, the front ground floor room boasts a ceiling decorated with the arms of 40 English towns and cities, with the Royal Arms at the center. This decoration primarily consists of engravings printed on paper and affixed to the ceiling. The mottoes include "A thing of beauty is a joy forever," "Religion is the parent of Architecture," and "Architecture is the parent of Taste." The room also has an undercut cornice and scroll brackets supporting the fireplace. The back room features a well-preserved chimneypiece from the same period, adorned with lion heads.

Local climate

Elizabeth Cottage 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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