Old Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. Cottage.
Old Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-rampart-barley
- 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
- Old Oak Cottage, Aldworth
- OS grid reference
- SU 558 795
- Coordinates
- 51.51171, -1.19679
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Oak Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with additions from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It has a timber frame with angle braces and brick nogging, along with a 20th-century brick addition on the right side. The cottage features a hipped thatched roof, with two eyebrow eaves dormers on the left that contain 2-light casements, and another dormer on the right also with a 2-light casement. There is an off-centre ridge stack to the left and a central stack located behind the ridge. The building comprises one framed bay with an 18th-century framed bay to the left. It is one and a half storeys high, with a 2-light casement to the left and two 2-light casements to the right. Between the first and second windows from the left, there is a two-leaf boarded door. To the right, there is a 3-light casement and a boarded door to the left in the 20th-century addition.
Local climate
Old Oak Cottage 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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