The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- steep-stronghold-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, 4, Leckhampstead, RG20 8RB
- OS grid reference
- SU 452 764
- Coordinates
- 51.48546, -1.35022
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has been altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick and a thatched roof, along with a flat-roofed extension. The building has a rectangular plan, consisting of one framed hay with a catslide roof over an outshut to the west and a 20th-century extension to the south. It is one and a half storeys high, with flanking chimneys on the north and south sides, and a dormer window cut into the thatch on the east side. The east elevation includes a half-glazed 20th-century porch located off-centre to the left and a 2-light casement window to the right.
Local climate
The 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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