Hopgood's Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Hopgood's Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-lancet-thunder
- 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
- Hopgood's Farm Cottage, Bucklebury, RG7 6TA
- OS grid reference
- SU 538 697
- Coordinates
- 51.4244, -1.22726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hopgood's Farm Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with 19th-century refronting. It is timber framed with angle braces, brick nogging, and a white-painted brick facing to the right side. The roof is tiled, with the left part lower than the right, featuring a gabled dormer and a 2-light casement window. A central ridge stack is present. The cottage is of the lobby entrance type and consists of two framed bays. It has 1½ storeys to the left and 2 storeys to the right. A 20th-century casement window is on the first floor to the right, while the ground floor has a segmental headed 2-light casement to the left and two segmental headed 2-light casements to the right. A boarded door is centrally located beneath the stack, positioned between the first and second windows from the left, with a 20th-century porch.
Local climate
Hopgood's Farm 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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