Close Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. Cottage.
Close Cottages
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cinder-frost
- 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
- Close Cottages, 1 and 2, Newbury Road, Yattendon
- OS grid reference
- SU 551 744
- Coordinates
- 51.46652, -1.20712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Close Cottages are two cottages located on the west side of Newbury Road in Yattendon. They date from the 18th century, with a 19th-century addition. The cottages are constructed of red brick with grey headers and a plat band. They feature an old tile roof with a central ridge stack and three gabled dormers, each containing 2-light casements. The cottages are one and a half storeys high. The ground floor of the left cottage has a 2-light casement window, while the right cottage has a 3-light casement window, both flanking a central boarded door. The entrance is also located at the left-hand end of the left cottage. The right-hand block, which is the 19th-century addition, is made of red brick with a tiled roof and has an end stack on the left. It is one storey and has a garret, with one ground floor segmental-headed 3-light casement window.
Local climate
Close 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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