Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1986. House.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-minaret-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Cottage, Aldworth
- OS grid reference
- SU 554 793
- Coordinates
- 51.51027, -1.20293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with rendered infill panels and weatherboarded gables, topped with a tiled roof. The building has three bays running from northwest to southeast and is two storeys high, with a chimney located on the ridge at the southeast end.
On the northeast elevation, there is a 2-light casement window on the ground floor in the left bay, a 3-light casement above, and a 4-light 20th-century casement in the central bay, along with a 2-light 20th-century casement in the right bay. A single-storey lean-to is positioned at the far right.
The southwest elevation mirrors this arrangement, featuring a 2-light casement on the ground floor in the left bay, a 3-light casement above, a 4-light 20th-century casement in the central bay, and a 2-light 20th-century casement in the right bay, with another single-storey lean-to to the far right. The southwest elevation is weatherboarded and includes single and 2-light casements on the first floor, along with a plain boarded door situated under a gabled porch to the left.
Local climate
Church 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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