Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Walnut Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- steep-shingle-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Walnut Tree Cottage, Sulham Lane, RG8 8EA
- OS grid reference
- SU 641 750
- Coordinates
- 51.47056, -1.07737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with 20th-century additions on the right side. The structure is timber framed, featuring angle braces, red brick nogging on the ground floor, and plaster infill panels on the first floor. It has an old tile roof with an end stack to the left and a tile-hung gabled eaves dormer on the left that contains a 3-light leaded casement window. There is a gabled cross wing that is off-centre to the right, showcasing an exposed queen post truss and a 3-light leaded attic casement window. The cottage consists of four framed bays and is one and a half to two storeys high. On the first floor, there is a small 2-light leaded casement window off-centre to the left. The ground floor has a 3-light leaded casement window to the left, another 3-light leaded casement off-centre to the right, flanking a small 20th-century leaded casement. A boarded door from the 20th century is located off-centre to the left, positioned between the first and second windows from the left. To the right, there is a 20th-century one-storey addition that projects out and features a 3-light leaded casement window in the gable end.
Local climate
Walnut Tree 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction 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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