Fairchilds is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. House. 5 related planning applications.
Fairchilds
- WRENN ID
- twisted-rood-poplar
- 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
- House
- Address
- Fairchilds, Bucklebury, RG7 6SA
- OS grid reference
- SU 545 692
- Coordinates
- 51.41994, -1.21645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fairchilds is a house dating from around 1600, with an 18th-century addition to the north. It features red brick with grey headers, timber framing with curved braces, and brick nogging. The roof is covered with old tiles. The building has an L-plan layout, with a cross wing to the right that includes a queen-post truss in the gable end and an end stack to the right. It is one and two storeys high, with a 20th-century first floor casement window in the cross wing to the right and two ground floor casements. There is a central 20th-century glazed door to the left, along with a 20th-century gabled porch that has a half-glazed door flanked by 20th-century casements on either side.
Local climate
Fairchilds 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 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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