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

Melrose Cottage

WRENN ID
twelfth-arch-swift
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
Melrose Cottage, 52, High Street, Theale
OS grid reference
SU 644 713
Coordinates
51.43779, -1.07408
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Melrose Cottage is a pair of cottages dating from the 17th century. They are timber framed and rendered, topped with an old tile roof. The building has two framed bays and stands two storeys tall, featuring end stacks. On the first floor, there are two slight casements, while the ground floor has two three-light casements flanking two central boarded doors.

Local climate

Melrose Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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