Bread Oven Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1984. Cottage.
Bread Oven Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-truss-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bread Oven Cottage, Craven Road, Inkpen
- OS grid reference
- SU 356 647
- Coordinates
- 51.3804, -1.48932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bread Oven Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1600, with additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame structure with brick infill, as well as brick with grey headers and red stretchers, topped by a half hipped thatched roof. The building consists of two bays of timber framing, with a one-bay addition to the north and 20th-century extensions to the north and west. It stands at one and a half storeys, with a single-storey 20th-century extension. A ridge chimney is located between the two timber-framed bays, and the thatch sweeps around two eaves dormers on either side of the chimney.
On the east elevation, there are two two-light casement windows to the left, a central 20th-century gabled porch, and two more two-light casements to the right, which have cambered heads. Additionally, there is one two-light casement window in the 20th-century extension at the far right.
Local climate
Bread Oven Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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