Rooksnest Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1984. A C17 Cottage.

Rooksnest Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
sacred-step-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Constituency
Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Rooksnest Farm Cottage, Rooksnest Lane, Kintbury
OS grid reference
SU 384 647
Coordinates
51.38028, -1.44841
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rooksnest Farm Cottage is a 17th-century cottage featuring a timber frame with painted brick and render infill, topped with a half hipped thatched roof. The cottage consists of three structural bays and follows a lobby entry plan. It is one and a half storeys high, with thatch dressed around the dormers in the central and north bays. A chimney is located to the south of the central bay and to the north of the north bay. The east elevation includes one casement window in the south bay, a boarded door opposite the chimney, a wide glazing bar sash in the central bay, and two glazing bar sashes in the north bay.

Local climate

Rooksnest Farm Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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