Briar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. A C17 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Briar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hollow-remnant-hawk
- 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
- Briar Cottage, Byle's Green, Bucklebury, RG7 6SD
- OS grid reference
- SU 542 690
- Coordinates
- 51.41775, -1.22126
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Briar Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with an addition built in the 18th century. The original section is timber-framed, featuring angle braces, with a white-painted brick ground floor and brick nogging to the first floor. It has a thatched roof with two eyebrow dormers and a stack at the left end. The cottage has two framed bays, and is one and a half storeys high. A central two-light casement window is flanked by three-light casement windows to the right and left. The right-hand block is constructed of white-painted brick with an old tile roof, two gabled dormers, and a central ridge stack. A segmental-headed doorway with a boarded door is situated to the left, accompanied by two three-light casement windows to the right; the window to the left has a segmental head.
Local climate
Briar Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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