White Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1983. A Medieval Residential.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lunar-rubble-linden
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1983
- Type
- Residential
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- White Cottage, White's Lane, Beenham
- OS grid reference
- SU 597 694
- Coordinates
- 51.4213, -1.14243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is a house dating from the early 16th century, with a circa 1930 addition to the right and a projecting gabled wing to the left. It features a timber frame with white painted brick nogging and a thatched roof, with an off-centre ridge stack to the left. The house is a hall house with three framed bays and stands two storeys tall. On each floor, there are two 20th-century leaded casements; the wing to the left has three first-floor casements and a boarded door with a thatched porch. The bay to the right displays large arch braces. Inside, there is a jettied solar in the left bay, and 17th-century floors and stack have been inserted in the two bays to the right. The interior also includes queen post trusses, wind braces, and smoke blackened roof timbers. This building is a notable example of a late medieval hall house, particularly interesting for its jettied solar.
Local climate
White 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- No related consent applications matched
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