The Gardens and Garage Flat is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1987. A Neo-Vernacular Cottages.
The Gardens and Garage Flat
- WRENN ID
- upper-garret-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1987
- Type
- Cottages
- Period
- Neo-Vernacular
- Address
- The Gardens and Garage Flat, Sulhamstead Hill
- OS grid reference
- SU 630 689
- Coordinates
- 51.41611, -1.09405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gardens and Garage Flat is a pair of cottages built around 1912 by Sir Edwin Lutyens in the Neo-Vernacular style. The cottages feature red brick with tiled lintels, some tile hanging on the first floor, and a tiled roof that is hipped at the rear with a partial catslide over an outshot to the north. The structure is U-shaped with two wings at the rear and two gables facing north, and it has one and a half storeys.
On the north front, there is a flat-topped eaves dormer off-centre to the right, which contains a 6-light leaded casement window. There is a central hipped dormer with a 2-light leaded casement, and ridge stacks positioned off-centre to the left and right at the rear. To the left, there is a 6-light leaded attic casement, and to the right, a 4-light leaded casement. The ground floor features a 2-light and a 4-light leaded casement to the left of the outshut, and a 2-light leaded casement to the right. There are half-glazed doors in the left-hand return wall of the outshot and at the far right, along with an arched through passage off-centre to the right of the outshot.
The east front includes two hipped dormers and two ground floor circular windows set in sunken square panels. There are mid-20th century garage doors located at the rear.
Local climate
The Gardens and Garage Flat 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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