Poplar Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Poplar Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- over-cupola-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Poplar Farmhouse, Cold Ash Hill, RG18 9NZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 512 693
- Coordinates
- 51.42073, -1.26499
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Poplar Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is timber framed with brick refacing and has an old tile roof. The building features an end stack to the right and a panelled stack on the ridge, which is off-centre to the left. There is a gable to the left with a blank window and a raised brick band that runs across the foot, along with a gabled cross wing to the right. The house is two storeys high and has four windows on the ground floor and four on the first floor, all of which are casements, with some featuring leaded lights. There is a blocked window above the door to the left.
The doorways are located with gabled porches, one to the right of the first window from the left and the other to the left of the first window from the right. The doorway to the left has a moulded surround and a boarded door with high-quality contemporary fittings, including hinges, studs, bolts, and a latch. The rear of the house has some exposed timber framing, a doorway with a moulded surround, and a projecting staircase block to the right.
Inside, the farmhouse features good moulded beams, door surrounds, and fireplaces. There is a 17th-century staircase with a ball finial on the newel post. Poplar Farmhouse is a notable example of a small Berkshire house from this period, particularly remarkable for the preservation of its interior fittings.
Local climate
Poplar Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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- 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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