Rooks Wake is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Rooks Wake
- WRENN ID
- errant-wall-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rooks Wake, Leckhampstead
- OS grid reference
- SU 451 764
- Coordinates
- 51.48521, -1.3508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rooks Wake is a cottage dating from the early 17th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill and a thatched roof. The building has a rectangular plan with an outshut on the north and part of the east sides. It is one and a half storeys tall, with an eaves dormer cut into the thatch on the south side and flanking chimneys on the east and west. The west chimney includes a bread oven and is set apart from the end frame, with the thatch hipped at each end and sweeping down over the outshut. On the south elevation, the timber frame is exposed, and there are two irregular 2-light leaded casements flanking a boarded door located to the right of centre, with a dormer window above the right-hand casement.
Local climate
Rooks Wake 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 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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