Lavender Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 June 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Lavender Cottage
- WRENN ID
- riven-moat-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lavender Cottage, Pudding Lane, Brightwalton, RG20 7BY
- OS grid reference
- SU 432 784
- Coordinates
- 51.50319, -1.37876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lavender Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with extensions and alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with brick infill and painted brick, topped by a thatched half-hipped roof. The cottage has three bays running east to west, with a 19th-century extension at right angles to the west and north, and a 20th-century flat-roofed extension to the north. It is one and a half storeys high and includes two eaves dormers with thatch swept around to the south. There is an end stack to the east and a ridge stack located one bay from the west. On the south elevation, there are two bays of timber framing on the left and brick on the right. The facade features two large three-light metal casements flanking a glazed door on the right, and a boarded entrance door under a thatched hood on the left.
Local climate
Lavender Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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