Downs Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Downs Cottage
- WRENN ID
- under-finial-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Downs Cottage, Boxford, RG20 8DJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 426 718
- Coordinates
- 51.44383, -1.388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downs Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with 20th-century additions. It is timber-framed with brick nogging and has a hipped thatched roof with a half-hip to the left side. A central chimney stack is present. The cottage is a single storey with an attic, and the roof slopes up to accommodate the attic windows. It is a lobby entrance type, with four windows to the left of the entrance door and one to the right. A central doorway has been blocked. There are four attic windows. All the windows are casements, some with leaded lights.
Local climate
Downs Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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