Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.

Walnut Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
quiet-garret-finch
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
Walnut Tree Cottage, Ashampstead, RG8 8QS
OS grid reference
SU 574 747
Coordinates
51.46839, -1.17387
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with 20th-century additions. It features a timber frame with brick nogging and angle braces, and has an old tile roof that is half hipped to the right. There is a 20th-century projecting gabled cross wing off-centre to the right, which has a tile-hung first floor and two diamond leaded casements. To the left, there are four gabled dormers with two-light diamond leaded casements and three ridge stacks. The house has five framed bays to the left and is one and a half storeys tall. On the ground floor, there are five 20th-century diamond leaded casements to the left of the cross wing, three with two lights and two with one light, as well as two 20th-century leaded casements to the right. The cross wing has a boarded door flanked by two 20th-century leaded casements, and a 20th-century gabled timber framed porch is located between the third and fourth windows from the left, also featuring a boarded door.

Local climate

Walnut Tree Cottage 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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