The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1974. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-zinc-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Pangbourne Road, Newtown, Upper Basildon, RG8 8JG
- OS grid reference
- SU 609 759
- Coordinates
- 51.47958, -1.12436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage located on the north side of Pangbourne Road in Basildon. It is constructed from flint with brick dressings and lacing courses, topped with an old tile roof.
The building is one and a half storeys high, featuring a half-hipped roof to the left, an end stack to the right, and two gabled eaves dormers that contain three-light casements. On the ground floor, there is a three-light segmental headed casement window to the left and a two-light segmental headed casement window to the right, flanking a 20th-century half-glazed door that is positioned off-centre to the right. This door is sheltered by a 20th-century timber gabled porch.
The Cottage is recognized for its vernacular architecture from the late 18th century and holds group value with other listed cottages of a similar age along Pangbourne Road. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The 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 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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