Whispering Hollow is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. Cottage.

Whispering Hollow

WRENN ID
rusted-truss-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Constituency
Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Whispering Hollow, Park Wall Lane, Basildon
OS grid reference
SU 598 775
Coordinates
51.49411, -1.13915
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Whispering Hollow is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with 20th-century additions to the northeast. It features a timber frame with plastered infill and a thatched roof, which is hipped to the west and half hipped to the east. The cottage has an end stack to the east and an off-centre ridge stack to the west. On the south side, there are four ground floor two-light casements and four eyebrow eaves dormers with two-light casements. To the left, there is a 20th-century gabled thatched brick porch with a weatherboarded tympanum and a boarded door. The building consists of two framed bays and is one and a half storeys tall.

Local climate

Whispering Hollow 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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