Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. A C17 Cottage.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-arch-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, Cock Lane, Bradfield
- OS grid reference
- SU 595 708
- Coordinates
- 51.43351, -1.14442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the south side of Cock Lane in Bradfield. It features a timber frame with white painted plaster infill panels and has two 20th-century raking brick buttresses on the left side. The roof is hipped and thatched, with a half hip to the north and four eyebrow eaves dormers on the east side, each containing 2-light 20th-century leaded casements. There is an end stack to the south and a central ridge stack. The cottage has four framed bays and is one and a half storeys high. The east front includes three ground floor 20th-century leaded casements and a 20th-century leaded French casement located between the third and fourth windows from the left. There is also an entrance at the rear.
Local climate
Thatched 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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