Pyt Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. Cottage.
Pyt Cottages
- WRENN ID
- hushed-niche-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pyt Cottages, 3, Ashampstead
- OS grid reference
- SU 578 758
- Coordinates
- 51.47823, -1.16784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pyt Cottages is a cottage dating from the late 17th century, with a 19th-century addition to the east. It has a timber frame with brick nogging and later brick additions. The roof is half hipped and covered with tiles, featuring three hipped dormers on the south side, which contain three-light 20th-century metal casements. There is an off-centre ridge stack located towards the east. The cottage consists of two framed bays and is one and a half storeys tall. The south front includes central 20th-century metal French casements, a three-light 20th-century metal casement to the left, a boarded door, and another three-light casement to the right.
Local climate
Pyt Cottages 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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