Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. Farmhouse. 9 related planning applications.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- heavy-slate-autumn
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, Basildon, RG8 9NH
- OS grid reference
- SU 612 792
- Coordinates
- 51.50909, -1.11939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse with 18th and 20th-century additions. It is constructed of red brick with rendered dressings, and flint with brick dressings to the west. The main block is set back to the right and has a battlemented parapet to its hipped old tile roof, a stack to the rear, and a 20th-century weathervane. It features two 20th-century segmental-headed casements on the first floor, two 20th-century segmental-headed windows on the ground floor to the right, and a 20th-century glazed door to the left, with a flat hood supported on wrought iron brackets. A block projects to the left, featuring square corner piers with finials and a shaped gable end with a blank circular panel. This block has an old tile roof, hipped to the rear, with a six-diamond shafted stack to the right. It has two 20th-century French casements with a wrought iron balcony on the first floor and a 20th-century glazed door to the left on the ground floor.
Local climate
Church Farmhouse 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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