Bow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. House. 8 related planning applications.
Bow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-soffit-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bow Cottage, Bath Road, Woolhampton, RG7 5RE
- OS grid reference
- SU 572 667
- Coordinates
- 51.3973, -1.17788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bow Cottage is an 18th-century shop, now a house, located on the south side of Bath Road in Woolhampton. The building is white-painted brick with a dentil eaves cornice above an old tile roof, which is hipped at the rear and gabled at the front, featuring a casement window. A ridge stack is present at the rear. The cottage is two storeys high with a garret. The first floor has glazing bar sash windows. On the ground floor is an exposed wooden box C18 bowed shopfront to the left and a panelled door with a bracketed hood to the right.
Local climate
Bow Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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