Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. A Medieval Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- open-plaster-lark
- 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
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church Cottage, Bradfield, RG7 6BT
- OS grid reference
- SU 603 725
- Coordinates
- 51.44899, -1.13363
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a late 15th and 16th century cottage with 19th-century additions to the west and north. It is timber framed with brick nogging, later brick additions, the western addition featuring grey diapering. The roof is of old tiles, half-hipped, with a catslide extending over a later outshut to the north. A large 19th-century ridge stack is located off-centre to the west, featuring two angled shafts, and there is a stack to the north. The cottage has two framed bays to the west. The south front has a first-floor 3-light casement window to the left, a ground-floor 3-light casement window to the right and a 2-light diamond-leaded casement window to the left. A boarded door is situated on the north side. An end of jetty is exposed with a bracket to the east. Inside, the eastern bay reveals a formerly external jetty to the north, and small solid curved braces are used to tie in the beams.
Local climate
Church 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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