Riverside Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. House.
Riverside Cottages
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-foundation-snow
- 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
- Riverside Cottages, 1 and 2, Ashampstead Road, Bradfield
- OS grid reference
- SU 603 727
- Coordinates
- 51.45027, -1.13288
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Riverside Cottages is a house that has been divided into two homes, dating from the 17th century. It features a timber frame with brick nogging, which is painted white on the first floor. The north-west gable end is covered with old tiles, and the roof is hipped to the south-east, with a half hipped wing extending to the south-west. The building consists of two framed bays, plus one framed bay wing to the south-west. It has two storeys and a garret. On the north-east front, there are two 4-light leaded casements on the first floor and two 4-light leaded casements on the ground floor, both from the 20th century. The entrances are located at the right-hand end and at the rear.
Local climate
Riverside Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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