Noakes Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1971. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Noakes Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-rafter-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Noakes Hill Cottage, Ashampstead, RG8 8RY
- OS grid reference
- SU 567 770
- Coordinates
- 51.48999, -1.18446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Noakes Hill Cottage is a cottage built in the 18th century and later. It features red brick and knapped flint with brick dressings, topped by an old tile roof. The building has end stacks and three gabled dormers that contain diamond leaded casements. It is 1½ storeys tall, with three ground floor segmental headed casements that also have diamond leaded panes. There is a boarded door located between the first and second windows from the right, which is sheltered by a 19th-century gabled porch. To the left, there is a 20th-century one-storey addition that is set back and has a two-light casement.
Local climate
Noakes Hill 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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