2, The Square is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. A C16 House.
2, The Square
- WRENN ID
- lunar-plaster-torch
- 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
- House
- Address
- 2, The Square, Yattendon, RG18 0UF
- OS grid reference
- SU 552 744
- Coordinates
- 51.46666, -1.2063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 The Square is a house dating from around 1500. It has a timber frame with white painted brick nogging and a brick ground floor. The roof is covered with old tiles and features a large ridge stack to the left, positioned in front of the ridge. The building consists of two framed bays on the right and a smoke bay on the left. It is two storeys tall, with two one-light 20th-century casement windows on the first floor, a three-light casement window to the right, and a two-light casement window to the left. On the ground floor, there is a four-light 20th-century window to the left and a central boarded door.
Local climate
2, The Square 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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